“Women are waiting longer to marry – the average age for first marriages jumped to 29.8 in 2005 from 25.9 in 1992 – while the share of single women in their early 30’s rose to 32 percent last year from around 14 percent in 1990”
Source: Career women opting to date younger men
– Marriage-minded shun money, status.
By Chikako Endo,
Reuters, The Japan Times,
23 September 2006, page 3
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