The Question of Choice: How Never-Married Women Represented Singleness

The lack of proper awareness and knowledge regarding HIV/AIDS may leave a large section of the population vulnerable to contract the disease. Correct knowledge and awareness regarding the disease is a general prerequisite for the prevention and control of HIV/AIDS. Inadequate knowledge, negative attitudes and risky practices are major hindrances to preventing the spread of HIV. The objective was to obtain the knowledge regarding HIV/AIDS on the basis of knowledge questionnaire (KQ-18) among married and never married men and women in Mumbai and Thane district of age 25-35 years. The sample consisted of 120 participants (30 married men, 30 married women, 30 never married men, and 30 never married women) ages 25-35 years. The tool was divided into 2 categories a) Proforma [18 introductory questions, such as gender family type] and b) Knowledge questionnaire [standardized tool of knowledge questionnaire (KQ-18) comprising of 18 items]. Results revealed that participants had high knowledge about symptoms i.e., having sex with more than one partner can increase person’s chance of being affected with HIV; treatment i.e., there is a vaccine that can stop adults from getting HIV, precaution i.e., a person can get HIV by sitting in a hot tub or a swimming pool with a person who has HIV. Astonishingly, participants had a very low knowledge about women getting HIV if she has anal sex with a man, taking a test for HIV one week after having sex will tell a person if she or he has HIV and a natural skin condom works better against HIV than does a latex condom in terms of symptoms, treatment and precautions respectively. These research findings led us to believe that there is a need to impart knowledge in relation to HIV/AIDS.

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A comparison of ever-married and never-married women with anorexia nervosa or bulimia nervosa

International Journal of Eating Disorders ◽

10.1002/(sici)1098-108x(199712)22:4<395::aid-eat4>3.0.co;2-h ◽

1997 ◽

Vol 22 (4) ◽

pp. 395-401 ◽

Cited By ~ 12

Author(s):

Michael W. Wiederman ◽

Tamara Pryor

Keyword(s):

Anorexia Nervosa ◽

Bulimia Nervosa ◽

Married Women ◽

Never Married

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The Association between Marital Status and Psychological Well-being: Variation across Negative and Positive Dimensions

Journal of Family Issues ◽

10.1177/0192513x20910184 ◽

2020 ◽

Vol 41 (11) ◽

pp. 2179-2202 ◽

Cited By ~ 1

Author(s):

Tze-Li Hsu ◽

Anne E. Barrett

Keyword(s):

Marital Status ◽

Personal Growth ◽

Well Being ◽

The United States ◽

Married Women ◽

Psychological Well Being ◽

Never Married ◽

Negative Dimension ◽

Environmental Mastery ◽

Better Than

Marital status is associated with psychological well-being, with the married faring better than the formerly and never-married. However, this conclusion derives from research focusing more on negative than positive well-being. We examine the association between marital status and negative well-being, measured as depressive symptoms, and positive well-being, measured as autonomy, environmental mastery, personal growth, positive relations with others, self-acceptance, and purpose in life. Using Wave 2 of Midlife in the United States (2004–2006; n = 1,711), we find that the continuously married fare better on the negative dimension than do the formerly married. The results for some measures of positive well-being also reveal an advantage for the continuously married, compared with the formerly and the never-married. However, results for other positive measures indicate that the unmarried, and the remarried, fare better—not worse—than the continuously married. Further, some results suggest greater benefits for remarried or never-married women than men.

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The Drover's Wife and the Drover's Daughter: Histories of Single Farming Women and Debates in Australian Historiography

Rural History ◽

10.1017/s0956793300002430 ◽

2001 ◽

Vol 12 (2) ◽

pp. 179-194

Author(s):

Kathryn M. Hunter

Keyword(s):

Nineteenth Century ◽

Rural Women ◽

Married Women ◽

The Other ◽

Family Farms ◽

Rural History ◽

Never Married ◽

Women's Lives ◽

New Research ◽

Rural Australia

AbstractIn the 1980s two vigorous debates commanded the attention of economic and feminist historians alike, and they played a key part in shaping the historiography concerning rural women in Australia. One debate revolved around the use of the nineteenth-century census in determining women's occupations, including those of farming women. The other debate, part of a wider feminist conversation about women's agency, focused on the question of the nature of white women's lives within colonial families and society. Despite the centrality of rural women to these debates, and the role colonial women's histories played in shaping the historiography, these debates did not impact upon the writing of rural history in Australia. This article revisits these debates in the light of new research into the lives of never-married women on Australia's family farms and uses their histories to question the conclusions arrived at by feminist and economic historians. It also questions the continuing invisibility of rural women in histories of rural Australia and hopes to provoke more discussion between rural and feminist historians.

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Caveats and criteria: intercultural courtships of shengnü (‘leftover women’) and Western men in urban China

Families Relationships and Societies ◽

10.1332/204674320x15885850741253 ◽

2020 ◽

Author(s):

Sandy To

Keyword(s):

Filial Piety ◽

Married Women ◽

Chinese Economy ◽

Urban China ◽

Partner Choice ◽

Social Connections ◽

Never Married ◽

Choice Strategy ◽

The World ◽

Leftover Women

The phenomenon of shengnü (‘leftover women’) has attracted much attention in recent years. Many of these single, never-married women have adopted the alternative partner choice strategy of choosing Western men, in the belief that they would be more open-minded about their accomplishments than patriarchal Chinese men. In this study of 17 shengnü’s intercultural courtship experiences in Shanghai, it was found that they faced many caveats. In reality, it was difficult for them to find equally accomplished Western men who were looking for serious relationships. Those who were high-flying executives were often orientalist or licentious, and those who were unambitious were resented and scorned (by the women). Economic criteria aside, one key criterion that the Western men had to fulfil was to know Chinese in order to communicate with the women’s parents. The topic of intercultural courtships brings to light the haigui (overseas returnee) identity of the shengnü who straddle the world of a global cosmopolitan professional elite, and the world of a developing Chinese economy where traditional features like filial piety and guanxi (social connections) still endure.

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Marriage Timing of Chinese American and Japanese American Women

Journal of Family Issues ◽

10.1177/019251395016003005 ◽

1995 ◽

Vol 16 (3) ◽

pp. 314-343 ◽

Cited By ~ 7

Author(s):

SUSAN J. FERGUSON

Keyword(s):

White Women ◽

Census Data ◽

Chinese American ◽

Married Women ◽

Japanese American ◽

Time Model ◽

American Women ◽

Never Married ◽

Marriage Rates ◽

First Marriage

Using U.S. census data, this study examines the differences in marriage rates and timing among White, Chinese American, and Japanese American women. An accelerated time model estimates the duration until marriage for each racial-ethic group while controlling for nativity, education, birth cohort, ancestry, and English proficiency. Results show that White women have the shortest duration until marriage, with a smaller percentage remaining never married. Chinese American and Japanese American women delay first marriage longer and have higher percentages of never married women.

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