According to a 2004 survey by the Asian Women’s Forum and the Women’s Studies Center at Peking University, 45.3 percent of women felt they did not need to give up a career for family life.

This goes against the cultural expectation that women should raise families and tend to their husbands.

Some experts link this new trend with the ‘one-child policy rule’ where families who did have daughters raised them as an old child, which may have something to do with rising population of confident career-driven woman.