上海、广州接连出炉的青年幸福感报告发现女性青年的幸福感得分显著高于男性青年，且两者之间的得分差距正在拉大。北京的男女青年是否存在同样的感受?又是什么原因导致了这种现象?

A recent report released by Shanghai Communist Youth League indicates that the male youth in Shanghai feel far less happier than female. It surveyed people aging from 15 to 34 on how happy they feel. On a 0 to 10 scale, where 10 means extremely happy and 0 stands for extremely miserable, female youth gets an average point of 7.5 while male gets only 7 and the gap is expanding through recent years.

Another report established by Guangzhou Youth Research Institute echoes with it. The result shows merely 39 percent of male youth in Guangzhou feel happy, but the percentage reached 51 among female.

So we come to this question, does citizens in Beijing agree that men should feel less happier? To find the answer, we carried out a small survey on the street.

Among male respondents ten out of ten agreed that men have been shouldering much more pressure than women. And burdens mainly come from economic pressure and family responsibility.

Professor Huang Hongji is a youth research expert from Shanghai Institute for Youth Administrators. He summarizes the burdens men generally face,

"It's been a social habit that man should pay dinner bill at dating stage with a girl. When it comes to marriage, it's man who should afford the wedding room. After getting married, man should buy through his wife's friends. When having children, man should be wealthy and powerful enough to give them the best education and maybe arrange a job for them."

It sounds like the male side has made some fair points in the issue, but what would women say?

Well, according to our survey on women seven out of ten says they don't think men are necessarily facing more pressure than women.

Wei wei complains that women have never really been treated fairly. It is them who live harder lives.

"Although we study and work as hard as men, it's likely that we may not get as many chances. When at college, it's harder for women to find a job than men. When at work, bosses tend to assign men with more important tasks, since they simply think that men are more capable."

Despite so, more and more women still reckon that they should do as good as men. Xiong Shan is one of them and she believes women should be independent from men.

"We're living in a modern society. It's not like in old times when women must rely on men. Women should be independent today. We should be able to afford our own apartment and car."

Xiong's words sound a lot like a relief to most male youth in Beijing who are still striving for an apartment of his own, or to be more exact, an apartment to shelter families of his own. Is it coming true that men could finally sit back and relax and let independent women take over some of the burdens? Well, just wait for Xiong Shan to tell you why she believes women should be independent.

"If only we can afford our own apartment and car, can we find an even more capable man and live a more wealthy life."

Xiong says her life partner must be more capable and better-equipped than she is. And this has been agreed upon by all of our respondents participated in our survey, both men and women.

Professor Huang Hongji says we are now in the middle of social transformation, where an increasing number of women believe they should be independent from men and even do a better job than men in every aspect of life. However, the society is still male-dominated in a bigger picture and men being the bread winner is still deeply rooted in people's mind. The rising feminism however has only left men with fiercer competition and higher requirements from women, thus more pressure.

Huang adds that the situation will remain for decades, during which time men and women should all face it together and try to be more understanding.

For CRI, I'm Wang Wei.

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