A Study Of Women’s Single Phenomenon In Republic Of China

Republic of China is an period to ring out the old and ring in the new, and in the times avariety of revolution filled with every corner of society. Influenced by the constant baptism ofEuropean, American ideology and the New Culture Movement on May4th, the intellectualwomen’s self-consciousness was awaken. They through put full, cut, social, employment tooppose the feudal moral codes for long time of oppression. More and more women receivedhigher education, got economic independence and changed the standard of mate selection,while these factors urge numerous female intellectuals to search for free love. The moreintellectual women began to pursue free love, marriage, independent, They were no longerwilling to accept arranged marriages by their parents, but when their appeal cannot besatisfied, then the singleness generated. In the first half of20th century, some individuals andgroups that advocated bachelordom appeared in succession, which caused the wide attentionfrom all sectors of society.Around the singleness of intellectual women, there is a mixted reaction in society withgood ones and bad ones. In general, the voice of opposition is louder than the one of praise.Single behavior is indeed the resistance of intellectual women to the dark old society in thatsocial environment, but this way is somewhat extreme and radical, not a shorcut to personaldevelopment, nor a good medicine of transformating society. Single women need moreconcern and redemption of the whole society, therefore, a fundamental way to solve theproblem is to guarantee the married women’s right to work, to advocate marriage freedom,and to resolve the problem of child support reasonably, so that married women can do bothfamily and career. Only social progress and development, giving women more rights andpolicy guarantee, radically improve the status of women, women realize the value of the"people".