Young career women use a quarter of their monthly earnings on
beauty products, a recent survey shows. Each year, they spend three
and a half months' salary on clothing. Half of them have credit
cards, and one fourth of them overdraw these cards.
Pink collar worker refers to worker works in a relatively clean,
safe environment, in a job that is considered traditionally
female.
The Beijing Morning Post published this survey of the
lifestyles of China's young career women, whom they called pink
collar workers, on Tuesday.
The survey was carried out in eight Chinese cities, including
Beijing, Shanghai, Guangzhou, Hangzhou, Shenzhen, Nanjing, Dalian
and Chengdu.
The survey indicates that the average income of these so-called
pink collar workers is 4,420.9 yuan (about US$578). Beijing women
earn the most, with an average salary reaching 6,000 yuan (US$784)
per month. While their counterparts in Dalian earn the least.
Nevertheless Beijing women were found to be the least satisfied
with their lives, while those in Hangzhou were the most
satisfied.
Eighty percent of the interviewees indicated travel as hobby.
Participants were said to spend one seventh of their monthly income
on entertainment such as watching movies, or going to karaoke bars
and cafes. Two thirds of their income is said to be spent on
consumer goods. Half of the participants use credit cards to pay
for the bills and one fifth, maxed out their cards at least
once.
The average monthly expenditure of these pink-collar workers is
2,901.5 yuan (US$379) per month.
All interviewees held at minimum a college degree, and worked in
the fields of management, government, media or finance. The average
age of these participants was 29. Most of those questioned are
single or stick to a DINK (double income no kids) family
pattern.
(CRI.cn May 30, 2007)