Today’s women may feel offended if one suggests that they go to college only to find a husband. But that isn’t the case for more than 30% of the female respondents in Guangzhou surveyed by the city’s women’s league, because that’s exactly what they’re doing.

Among the female college students surveyed, 32.7 percent of them put “improving oneself and finding a good husband” as the motive behind college studies, Nanfang Metropolis Daily reported on March 4, four days ahead of the International Women’s Day.

However, we don’t have to despair (yet) because the survey results showed that more than 70 percent of respondents agreed that realizing one’s dream and finding a good job are major drives behind higher education.

60.8% of the women surveyed disagree that one has to marry a gao fu shuai, tall rich and handsome in English, and 77.6% do not support the idea of “crying in a BMW rather than smiling on a bicycle”.

Meanwhile, the findings showed that female students in Guangzhou are becoming more open-minded about sex, but are inactive about sex. 83% of women said premarital sex has nothing to do with ethics and is a personal choice, but 57.9% of the women chose chastity.

Are the findings reliable? Is college the best time for women to snag a husband? What’s your take?

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