In terms of role fulfillment, males will take the responsibilities of earning a living and keep the financial secure, while the women’s job are housework, foster the children, etc。 While males sometimes look for employment, most females acted as housewives and didn’t involve in any vocations (“Men outside, Women inside”, indicates this distinction of functional roles) (Bao 58)。
But, the traditional marriages’ purposes acknowledge the heavy impact。 The younger generation usually pays attention to the marriage that true love comes first。 But it is not an easy thing to turn love into the main purpose in the highly traditional country。 With the development of modern society and ideology, there is a great change in the marriage concept of Chinese people。 Husband and wife’s relationship are becoming more equal; they respect each other and bear the living stress together。 Also, in the social environment and marriage setting, females have gained higher social status。 They have received better education and had employment choices than before。 In China, especially in Feudal Society, once there was a fierce quarrel between man’s mother and wife, the husband would choose to support his mother, even worse, the husband may choose to porce with his wife。 But now it is totally different, the social view towards marriage is persistently changing with the development of economic, political and transformation undergoes。