Why Singaporean Women Remain Single?

An article called “The Strain of Success” was written by Mr. Seah Chiang Nee where the article was published in The Star Newspaper dated March 10, 2007. Seah Chiang Nee is currently one of The Star’s columnists along with Wong Sulong, Joceline Tan, Marina Mahathdir and many more since 1986. The 65 year old journalist from Singapore has been journalizing for over 40 years. Furthermore, he was the first South-East Asian to go through a heart transplant where the failing organ was being replaced with the heart of a 17-years-old boy who died at that moment. Most of his articles cover genre topics like politics, people, sports, technology, economy, culture, education and etc.

“The Strain of Success” is about how modern-day women in Singapore carry themselves as independent individual and how they cope with the hectic environment in Singapore society. There are several points which I might found to be offensive to some women in general and there are also several statements which I found to be true. without supporting evidences to enlighten it. The article has brought to my attention due to the writer’s aggressiveness in criticizing single young women in Singapore. Most points are based on the writer’s assumptions and not by looking outside the box. Misconception occurred when the writer himself is a baby boomer. Women from his generation may slightly lack of capability, knowledge and strength to overcome everyday routines. However, in today’s society, women are getting more opportunities to put themselves as same level as men. The main point stressed by Mr. Seah is, “Why recent young professional women are not acting like how a real woman should be?” The cause of this issue is not because of career-approaches that has been one of women’s obsessions. In fact, there are several other reasons towards the curiosity of why are they so many single women these days.

The writer started his article by stating, well-dressed young ladies sitting in a group are single and unattached. Thus, he was inspired to write an article regarding professional women are no longer interested in building a family of their own. This is not true. What he saw in the restaurant might be a bunch of married women preferably to sit with their friends or colleagues for a lunch break. Was it an assumption? Or the young ladies he saw were his daughter’s friends? If the writer tends to write about percentage of unmarried women in Singapore, it is best to start by reliable facts or issues and not by judging strangers in a restaurant.

Mr. Seah also claimed, “Many are unmarried graduates in the 20s and 30s, who are confident, individualistic and who rely on no man”. This statement is indeed unpleasant to certain women. Unfortunately, the writer did not manage to perform a background