歧路纷出，何处是归程？--民国时期知识女性在事业与家庭上的两难选择

近代以来随着男女平等思想的传播，受过新式教育的知识女性要求在婚后学以致用，服务社会。男性也希望自己未来的配偶具有独立谋生的能力，共同分担家庭的经济压力。但是，整个社会对女性相夫教子的传统要求并没有消失或减弱。因此，民国时期的已婚知识女性就承担起了事业与家庭的双重责任。在难以兼顾的重压之下，最终多数人选择了回归家庭。究其原因，虽然政府颁布了产假制度，育儿社会化思想在社会上也广为传播，但是在经济疲敝的社会背景下产假制度与育儿社会化都缺乏得以实施的现实土壤。

On Intellectual Women s Difficult Choices between Career and Family during the Period of the Republic of China

With the spread of equality between men and women from modern times, intellectual women with new thoughts wanted to apply their knowledge to the society. Men also expected their wives to have the ability to make a living independently and share the family economic stress together. However, the traditional requirements for woman to take care of family never disappeared or decreased. Therefore, the married intellectual women had to take the responsibility both on career and family. It was so hard for them to keep a balance between job and family that most of them returned to the family at last. The reason was complicated. Although the government issued a maternity leave system and the theory of public children raising spread widely, these measurements couldn?t be realized under the background of economic constrict.