Author(s)

Simin Dai, Sixian Qi, and Zhanyi Chen

Corresponding Author

Simin Dai

ABSTRACT

With boom of the urban celibacy, the marital status of the highly educated women has received widespread attention. According to related reports, the single senior intellectual females generally shows the phenomenon of getting married later or not getting married. This article uses the philology theory to analyze the well-educated single female from the four levels of social public opinion, fertility issues, the structure of male-female ratio, and economic independence. In the end, we found that social media's excessive rendering of highly educated women caused the group to be "stigmatized." At the same time, because they are generally economically independent, they cannot balance the relationship between career and family. In addition, there is a certain imbalance in the sex ratio under the same educational level. For the above reasons, highly educated women are facing a dilemma that it is difficult to be married.

KEYWORDS

High intellectual female, Marriage dilemma, Fertility issues, Public opinion, Economic independence