Money – that’s what Hong Kong women want, survey finds
YMCA poll to mark International Women’s Day also finds most females believe being married to a driver or site worker would make them miserable
While it is a cliché that money can’t buy happiness, Hong Kong women have rated it as the most important factor for their well-being, according to a poll by YWCA released on Sunday.
The second most important factor was love, with marriage third, the survey showed.
And most women believed they being the wife of a driver, site worker or sportsman would make them most miserable.
Commissioned by Plaza Hollywood to mark International Women’s Day on Tuesday, the YWCA interviewed 1,451 women aged 15 or above in January and February on how they viewed the well-being or happiness of women in Hong Kong.
According to the survey, 58 per cent of respondents believed they could live a better life if their husbands were professionals such as doctors, lawyers and engineers.
Close to 56 per cent believed life would be good if their husbands owned their own businesses.
Slightly over 35 per cent would like their husbands to be bankers or stockbrokers.
Driver appeared the least desirable occupation for a husband. Only 1.3 per cent of women believed they could live a good life if they married a man who gets behind the wheel for a living.
Just 1.8 per cent believed having a site-worker husband would allow them good living, while 2.4 per cent chose sportsman, and 2.5 per cent opted for waiter or cook.
Some 3.6 per cent of women believed they could live a good life with a politician husband.
Pollsters believed that as more women become educated and have more opportunities to progress in society, it was natural that they would feel money should be more important than love.
And faced with an uncertain economic outlook, women would also feel the need to better manage their money to prepare for bad times, according to the researchers’ analysis.
In last year’s inaugural poll, women rated love, money and children as the top three most important factors for their well-being.
YMCA poll to mark International Women’s Day also finds most females believe being married to a driver or site worker would make them miserable
While it is a cliché that money can’t buy happiness, Hong Kong women have rated it as the most important factor for their well-being, according to a poll by YWCA released on Sunday.
The second most important factor was love, with marriage third, the survey showed.
And most women believed they being the wife of a driver, site worker or sportsman would make them most miserable.
Commissioned by Plaza Hollywood to mark International Women’s Day on Tuesday, the YWCA interviewed 1,451 women aged 15 or above in January and February on how they viewed the well-being or happiness of women in Hong Kong.
According to the survey, 58 per cent of respondents believed they could live a better life if their husbands were professionals such as doctors, lawyers and engineers.
Close to 56 per cent believed life would be good if their husbands owned their own businesses.
Slightly over 35 per cent would like their husbands to be bankers or stockbrokers.
Driver appeared the least desirable occupation for a husband. Only 1.3 per cent of women believed they could live a good life if they married a man who gets behind the wheel for a living.
Just 1.8 per cent believed having a site-worker husband would allow them good living, while 2.4 per cent chose sportsman, and 2.5 per cent opted for waiter or cook.
Some 3.6 per cent of women believed they could live a good life with a politician husband.
Pollsters believed that as more women become educated and have more opportunities to progress in society, it was natural that they would feel money should be more important than love.
And faced with an uncertain economic outlook, women would also feel the need to better manage their money to prepare for bad times, according to the researchers’ analysis.
In last year’s inaugural poll, women rated love, money and children as the top three most important factors for their well-being.
