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China's 'leftover women', unmarried at 27

By Mary Kay Magistad

Over 27? Unmarried? Female? In China, you could be labelled a "leftover woman" by the state - but some professional Chinese women these days are happy being single.

Huang Yuanyuan is working late at her job in a Beijing radio newsroom. She's also stressing out about the fact that the next day, she'll turn 29.

"Scary. I'm one year older," she says. "I'm nervous."

Why?

"Because I'm still single. I have no boyfriend. I'm under big pressure to get married."

Huang is a confident, personable young woman with a good salary, her own apartment, an MA from one of China's top universities, and a wealth of friends.

Still, she knows that these days, single, urban, educated women like her in China are called "sheng nu" or "leftover women" - and it stings.

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rest of item here:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-21320560

[Ed Anger]

Too old.

[katmai]

Like you need another woman fertile myrtle

[Josquius]

Strange considering the problem you hear about most often in China is a shortage of women.

I remember when Boris Johnson was speaking at Newcastle Uni back when he was shadow education secretary. For some reason one of the main things he was talking about was the potential problems in the future with a majority of graduates being women (ah Boris...).The problem being that its generally seen as acceptable for men to marry someone 'beneath them' whilst for traditional reasons women can't be the main bread winner. It applies to the west to an extent just as much as China.
He posed the question to us as to what the solution would be, I said lesbianism, he did a patented Boris "well yes, oh, err, rather, oh" and moved on.

This spinster at 27 thing is a bit of a problem in Japan too. Its commonly said here that women are like christmas cake- 25 is the magic number after which bad things happen.....

[HVC]

The tragedy is, they don't realise that as women age, they are worth less and less.

 

[Ed Anger]

Like you need another woman fertile myrtle

I'm creating a legion.

[MadImmortalMan]

Strange considering the problem you hear about most often in China is a shortage of women.

If you think about it, the shortage of women would skew everything in their favor and give them less incentive to settle down. There will always be more men available.

[Eddie Teach]

Strange considering the problem you hear about most often in China is a shortage of women.

But no shortage of overly high expectations.

[KRonn]

Strange considering the problem you hear about most often in China is a shortage of women.

Yeah, this is a surprise given how baby girls are much more likely to be aborted or discarded when born, leading to a shortage of women from what we see reported. I'd think that unmarried women would be in huge demand and have little problem getting married.

[Razgovory]

Not the best lookers in the world, but I'm game.

[MadImmortalMan]

Strange considering the problem you hear about most often in China is a shortage of women.

Yeah, this is a surprise given how baby girls are much more likely to be aborted or discarded when born, leading to a shortage of women from what we see reported. I'd think that unmarried women would be in huge demand and have little problem getting married.

It might be better for China for them to stay unmarried and have sex with multiple men. The less sex deprivation the better. That stuff can mess people up. Like the Virginia Tech shooter. And that dude in Pennsylvania(?) that shot up that womens' yoga class because he couldn't get laid.

[Ideologue]

I know went a little crazy during the dry year.

[Caliga]

Pennsylvania(?)

Yeah, it was in Pittsburgh.

[Josquius]

Not the best lookers in the world, but I'm game.

The one at the back is alright. Looks like she's game for anything.

[Eddie Teach]

Not the best lookers in the world, but I'm game.

The one at the back is alright. Looks like she's game for anything.

The one in the suit?