Abstract: A questionnaire involving 1200 intellectual women in such cities and provinces as Tianjin， Shandong and Hebei is administered， whose results show that intellectual womens gender awareness and selfefficacy both exert remarkable predictive effect on retirement expectation. A further exploration and research reveal that gender awareness has direct and indirect predictive effect on retirement expectation. In the indirect way， the retirement expectation of intellectual women could be predicted by selfefficacy based on the intermediary effect of gender awareness whereas in the direct way， the retirement expectation could be predicted directly by gender awareness. The more gender awareness and selfefficacy an intellectual woman has， the more willing she is to delay her retirement date， and vice versa.

Key words: intellectual women, gender awareness, selfefficacy, retirement expectation