Do-It-Yourself among American Women

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(1) Sam Roberts, More Men Marrying Wealthier Women. New York Times, Jan. 19, 2010.
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/01/19/us/19marriage.html?scp=1&sq=pew women education&st=cse

Note: The report is based on

Richard Fry and D’Vera Cohn, New Economics of Marriage: The Rise of Wives. Pew Research Center, Jan. 19, 2010.
http://pewresearch.org/pubs/1466/economics-marriage-rise-of-wives

The print, but not the online, edition of the NYT report had illustrations, which care from the Pew report.

(2) Richard Whitmere, The Right Man IsGetting Harder to Find; Fairy-tale dreams collide with the dreaded 'operational sex ratio.' Wall Street Journal, Jan. 22, 2010.
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748704869304574596193584067688.html
("Couple the education gap with the current economic "man-cession"—as many as 80% of the jobs lost in the recession were held by men—and the dilemma for single women becomes even worse. Today, more and more well-educated women have to ask themselves: Am I willing to 'marry down'?")

My comment:
(a) Due to severe imbalance of male and female ratio in China, there is not issue of often chanted 剩女. However, if there is, it is all men's faults, for they make themselves unworthy.
(b) For Decades, divorce rate in Taiwan has inched up, to about 40% in recent years (compared with the relatively stable 50% in US for decades). Therefore, some Taiwanese women, and men are bound to be single for the entire life (such as me). It is conceivable that some Taiwanese women will seek self-help to have, and raise, a child on her own.




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