The Beijing University Chinese and Overseas Women’s Issues Research Center recently conducted an online survey on attitudes towards family bread-winning ratios. According to the results, 70 percent of the 896 respondents believed that a husband should earn “much more” than his wife, and none thought that the wife should be the main breadwinner.

Wei Guoying, deputy director of the center, says that despite more than half a century of women’s liberation in China, the traditional concept of male supremacy still prevails. The majority of men and women agree that men should have the best jobs and highest salaries and be accorded superior social status.