From the Agence France Presse, via Manila Bulletin Online: “Although household purchases in China are mostly funded by the man’s salary, the woman has a big say over how the paycheck is spent in the world’s most dynamic economy, a market research company has found.

Synovate, part of the British group Aegis, polled almost 4,000 women in nine key countries and made the results available to AFP over the weekend.

Chinese respondents answered differently to women in Japan, where marriage often means the end of financial independence and prompts them to stash away secret funds, the poll showed.”