A survey reviving the spectre of Bridget Jones is a reminder that women are still just seen as wives! A survey found that of 2,000 women in their mid-20s, a majority of those polled felt that 26 was the ideal age for marriage, and hoped to have children a year later. The implication was clear to editors across the country: Bridget Jones is back! One paper explained that young women don't want to end up "like author Helen Fielding's fictional singleton". But this isn't the return of Bridget Jones so much as the dogged survival of an insistent stereotype: women need to get married young and have babies. And judging by this survey, young women are listening. Read the article at guardian.co.uk