Our Reareach is base on 80 female
postgraduates in journalism school
By Feng Cheng
The contradiction in the value system of female postgraduates. While choosing a spouse, a female postgraduate is facing all kinds of mental conflicts: family vs. career, spiritual pursuit vs. material conditions, self-condition vs. outside pressure, which all become obstacles for female postgraduates choosing spouses. They are willing to accept the traditional ideas that women should pay more attention to family, but still hoping to have their own careers. Furthermore, they emphasize a lot on the spiritual agreement of the two. On the whole, female postgraduates build up their self-conciseness in the process of studying, which consequently results in a relatively high standard of choosing future husband.
The bias of social attitudes. Despite their own reasons, some objective reasons also should be taken into consideration. According to Chinese tradition, men have been and should be superior to women, no matter in family or society. Thus, the seemingly “superior” women who hold higher degree are not favored. Besides, mass media often expose the negative aspect of female postgraduates, gradually making a twisted image of them. It is also a source of pressure that women should marry in a certain age range, say, 25-30.
Female postgraduates have relatively limited choices. They (especially the science students) have little time to make new friends because of busy school life, say, doing experiment, reading reference books. Most of female postgraduates’ high school classmates or college students have been married, who obviously shift their attention to their own family life. It makes female postgraduates’ life even more isolated. What’s more, they prefer or insist in finding the Mr. Right by themselves, and refuse to participate in the “marriage interview”. Few choices left.