Sunday, March 05, 2006

UMCFD - Survey Lacks Integrity



Survey by UMCFD (University of Malaya’s Centre for Family Development) showed that 80 per cent of women professionals between the ages of 25 and 40 prefer not to marry at all for reasons that: Professional women lack sexual desire, career priorities, and a search for rich husbands. And that while they want their husbands to spend on them, they refuse to share their salaries with their husbands.

This is what a survey of 200 women professionals by UMCFD showed.

UMCFD director Professor Dr Abdul Rahim Abdul Rashid said the reason professional women lacked sexual desire was that they were very tired after work and were too preoccupied with their careers. Dr. Rahim said a shift in priorities from marriage to education and career as well as the lack of suitable marriage candidates was another factor. "More and more women pursue educational and career development. As a result, when they are ready for marriage, there are very few available single professional men.

Eight out of 10 women surveyed said they will refuse to share their money with their husbands, saying it was their money, while the husband is still expected to take care of all the household expenses. This will lead to men starting to develop a trend where professional men are starting to stay single as there are many unmarried women around who they can hook up with as it is common in urban societies for couples to practise free sex without the strictures and morality of marriage. Women in Kelantan and Terengganu felt sexually superior if they had been married a few times. "Most women there marry two or three times," Dr Rahim said.

Meanwhile, University Malaya lecturer and counsellor Hushim Salleh said women were not interested in marrying because "men of quality" were lacking in the country. Many men now are gay or soft. Hushim said parents must bring up their male children properly and ensure they did not engage in "disruptive gender activities".

Dr Rahim and En. Hushim, is this your "Philosophy of Marriage" and who are the 200 professional women you had interviewed? As a PhD scholar, does 200 form adequate representation of the Malaysian society at large? Or, is this University Malaya's standard for research!

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