Does Marrying Well Count More Than Career? Personal Achievement, Marriage, and Happiness of Married Women in Urban China

A gender perspective is basically missing in the existing literature on subjective well-being (referred to as SWB) in China, and evidence of women’s SWB is scanty. Drawing from the theoretical framework of public/private-sphere separation, this article examines how married women’s happiness is affected by her personal achievement and characteristics of marriage matching, with particular reference to class and educational assortative marriage....