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BEIJING, Feb 24 (Bernama) -- A survey made in Shanghai shows that men with lower academic degrees than their wives are happier than those with higher or similar degrees. And the happiest marriage is achieved when both spouses draw a similar income.
The survey conducted by the Shanghai Women's Federation questioned 769 married people between the ages of 27 and 37 with bachelor degrees or above, XINHUA news agency quoted China Daily report on Friday.
As in other cities, Shanghai has got more and more career women who find it difficult to seek a suitable partner.
Highly educated women with high social positions in their 30s are among the most difficult groups in seeking the right match in our agency, said a staff member surnamed Yu at the Jinguoyuan Matchmaking Agency, one of the largest of its kind in Shanghai.
The problem does not just lie with men, who still tend to look for a young and not-so-ambitious bride. Many women remain shy of marrying anybody younger, shorter and less successful than themselves, he said.
A recent survey of its 286 clients, conducted by the match-making agency, found that 85 percent of men and 75 percent of women think that the perfect match is when the man is older.
On the other hand, most of the women said they want their future husbands to have at least a college education and earn no less than 3,000 yuan (US$370) a month.
Lu suggested that women start to play a more active role in solving the problem. Highly educated women should challenge social taboos and get married to a man who is less educated, less successful, younger or shorter than her.
-- BERNAMA
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