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This study explores the attitudes to marriage and child‐bearing held by women graduates born 1957–62. It is argued that this is a group of women for whom economic and cultural pressures to enter marriage are low, due to changes in social structures and the availability of a feminist philosophy that provides an alternative value system to patriarchy. With extrinsic pressures to marry so reduced, what factors determine the marriage and family decisions that they make? Interviews with a small sample of these women provide some strong pointers. Marriage at an appropriate age and to an appropriate partner was seen as providing substantially more benefits than costs. Delaying marriage until personal identity had been achieved was considered very important, with independent living, work and overseas travel contributing to identity formation. Supportiveness and egalitarianism were considered crucial qualities in a spouse, and those who were married had tended to marry men who were as or more ambitious for their wives than for themselves. An overall attitude of entitlement‐with‐organisation emerged. The increase in socioeconomic differences among women‐in‐their‐own‐right is discussed.

This study discusses the realities faced by single female workers in urban areas who are still bound by stereotypes. It is undeniable that women remain a significant topic of discussion as there are several views that hinder women, particularly in pursuing their achievements in higher education. This article focuses on how women strive to overcome stereotypical views that limit their rights. Examine the increasingly widespread stereotypes that raise society's awareness on emerging gender-based generalizations. Thus, through recognizing gender roles, women shape their identities by constructing their own realities. Therefore, by applying an exploratory-qualitative approach, the authors found three informants in Jakarta who are challenging societal constructions. Based on the Social Construction Theory, this study shows that even though women have formal education and high jobs, they still face questions from their environment that influence their identity construction.

"Drawing on the increased scholarly interest in women of the Meiji period, the present book considers the significance and influence of elite, educated Meiji women and their role in shaping the national identity of women in modern Japan. Carrying over these considerations both from previous English and Japanese scholarship, this study interrogates the political and cultural forces that positioned women as delegates of the Meiji empress' court or as exemplary Japanese women. It argues that the network of women emerging from the empress' court negotiated the visually, culturally, and educationally circulated feminine ideals and its effects that were carried out as components of a modern Japanese woman's identity"--

Feminist leadership is a matter of grave concern in Ethiopia where educated women appear to be obliged to fight individual battles to sustain their own agendas on the emancipation of women. Being manipulated by the government-led 'woman question' rhetoric, many fail to come to terms with charting such an independent discourse. What is holding them back? Could it be their ideological make-up that is influenced by state and religious indoctrination? Or perhaps their own shortcomings where many fail to comprehend what feminist leadership is all about? Educated women need to have a renewed vision on women's emancipation and to take meaningful decisions on what form of leadership would best advance such concerns. In this twenty-first century it is indeed high time to shed the apolitical and deradicalized stance on the emancipation of women; they should take an independent lead and call for comprehensive and transformative forms of gender equality.