Highly-educated Singaporean women : being single by choice in a patriarchal society and how they make sense of it.

• Main Author: Tan, Mei Feng.
• Other Authors: Tam Chen Hee
• Format: Final Year Project
• Language: English
• Published: 2011
• Subjects: DRNTU::Social sciences::Sociology::Family, marriage and women
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/10356/43831
• Institution: Nanyang Technological University

The number of singles in Singapore has been on the rise in recent years. Many papers have been dedicated to “solving” this issue by addressing the problems that singles face, but the aim of my paper is to look at singlehood from another perspective. What if these people have made it a choice to rema...