Recently, marriage-seeking women are two times higher than males in Anhui's matrimonial agencies. Women who have good academic credentials and high salary feel difficult to find husbands. A manager of the matrimonial center run by local Women's Federation said currently such phenomenon was common. Two thirds of registered members of the center are women, 70% of them bachelor degree holders. However, most marriage-seeking males care more about women's age than about their academic achievements.

Ms. Wan Zhiying, vice director of the center, indicated many professional women working in the media and enterprises had come to register recently. Their comprehensive qualities were excellent, but they still had difficulties finding boyfriends. She said, when the center recommended these ladies to males, the latter refused to meet them for fear that their jobs were insecure and their social relations sophisticated.

Many factors cause this phenomenon. On one hand, social environment forces woman to get better jobs and make academic achievements. Some of them failed to notice that their age was disadvantageous in the marriage-seeking process. On the other hand, in traditional Chinese views, husbands should be more successful than their wives, and they can feel the pressures from society if their wives are superior to them. While women also want to find men who are superior to themselves. All these factors increase the difficulties for women to find husbands.

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