Since their "engagement" with the erratic domestic stock market, Chinese women have become increasingly independent, resolute and less lonely, satirizes an article on the bwchinese website. The following are excerpts:

Since becoming stock investors, Chinese women are no longer so immersed in love and family affairs; instead, they have shown more interest in major State affairs and dress themselves up as economists.

No longer are they addicted to going shopping since they have found that a bar of Dove chocolate costs more than two shares of the Industrial and Commercial Bank of China.

The trials brought on by drastic fluctuations in share prices also have enabled them to more easily withstand the psychological trauma of such setbacks as breaking up with their boyfriends.

For Chinese women who have increasingly become financially independent and self-reliant, earning a profit of a few thousand yuan from the stock market brings a sense of accomplishment and security, or at least a sense of entertainment.