The graph is from 2005, so add 7 years to all the ages. The (now) 27-31 age group is the beginning of the 10%-20% shortage of women.
Posted on 07/30/2012 10:23:50 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
China’s 'leftover women’ are considered on the shelf if they're still single at 28.
In case you hadn’t noticed, Chinese women have become quite a force to be reckoned with in recent years. According to Forbes magazine, 11 of the 20 richest self-made women in the world are Chinese, and now 19 per cent of Chinese women in management positions are CEOs, the second highest percentage worldwide (after Thailand’s 30 per cent).
In fact, so undeniable is the rise of women in China that there is even a phrase for their sudden blossoming: yin sheng, yang shuai, which means the female (yin) is on the up, while the male (yang) is on the way down. But there’s one thing that’s holding them back – and even making them ditch their careers altogether – and that’s the fear of being single.
Unfortunately for China’s women their new-found confidence has incited a backlash from men, the government and even their own families. The popular Chinese label shengnu (leftover women), regularly perpetuated in state-controlled media and on internet message boards, refers to women who are smart, successful and moneyed but still not married by the age of 28.
That’s right: in China, if you're 30, female and single, you’re considered well and truly on the shelf.
'I always dread Chinese New Year,’ says Yang Ziyang, a 32-year-old talent agent earning in excess of one million RMB (£100,000) a year, 'because that’s when my extended family come over to the house and they all want to know why I’m not married yet. I tell them it’s because I have standards that I’m not willing to lower.’
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Oh, I think there are plenty of American men that will be willing to help them out.
Not much danger of me becoming a 28 yr-old Chinese woman.
I’ll take one
All the single ladies, all the single ladies
All the single ladies, all the single ladies
All the single ladies, all the single ladies
All the single ladies
Turning into a 28-yr old Chinese woman is the plot of the next Adam Sandler movie.
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The graph is from 2005, so add 7 years to all the ages. The (now) 27-31 age group is the beginning of the 10%-20% shortage of women.
Take two, they're small =^)
CC
Makes no sense with the greater number of men than woman due to the one-child policy and aborted girls by couples who want a son.
I think this is indicative of a larger issue. Society no longer supports the idea of the “breadwinning male.” The idea of the man coming home from a long day working in the mines or behind a desk has been replaced with 30+ year-old men living in mom and dad’s basement playing XBox and taking rips off the bong.
Women, in the meantime, are out in force in labor markets completely dominating the corporate offices of America and re-writing the idea of executive management. It’s no longer about cutthroat handshaking or drunken pub crawls to make a deal. These female executives are in many ways even more devious, cunning, and dastardly than their male counterparts. This, too, is a symptom of a society that has, for the last 30 years, pushed men farther down the pole of responsibility to family, society, or themselves.
My wife points out and laments how she misses working for men. She says that men are easily manipulated. Women can “pull the girl card” with a male boss, and he’ll just let them go, no questions asked. Female bosses want explanations. They’d practically keep your cycle updated in their Outlook calenders to keep you honest.
Women are power players in the global market, to be sure. Anglicanized, western powers see the female as fairer and easier to deal with, but back-office dealings show a different story. All of that aside, men are forced back on their heels in the workplace. They have to watch what they say, how they say it, how they look at a woman or comment on their dress. Then, when these power-broker women get into their late-30s and start wanting kids, they’re left picking from emasculated men with little to show for their lives except a regular, often meager paycheck by comparison and a fear of that woman.
I can say all of this, because I’ve lived it. I have college credentials, but women above me have more. Women are often promoted over men outside of male-dominated fields such as I.T. and engineering. And when I was dating in my late 20s, I was finding a lot of very eligible ladies in their 30s, but they were often power-hungry, type-A personality women who wanted to dominate versus being a partner in a co-equal relationship.
This is all cyclical, I believe. Traditional women like my wife lament having to work every day. Many of them would gladly hang up their pantsuits for a life of living at home tending to the house, the kids, the laundry, groceries, and cooking, even if that meant living a meager lifestyle compared to a two-income home. As men, we can only continue to push to better ourselves as workers and hope that the women in power get pregnant and leave a promotion recommendation behind when they realize that they really would rather be mothers than executives.
But in the story, there is an excess, not a shortage. What am I missing?
They’re considered unmarriageable at 28, hence the excess. Amazing, I know.
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Ironically there is a shortage of women to men in China. They must be importing poor young women in droves(from the Southern countries Vietnam, etc) How about North Korean women? Sounds unstable.
I met a woman from China here when she was 39 or 40 and she told me the same thing. She is(was) an old lady back there.
Other than a brief mention of the national difference in gender numbers, the author gives no more qualitative info on the number of unmarried women and unmarried men in any age group. Tell a some touching anecdotes about a few "victims" and you can make an issue appear to be the opposite of what it really is.
I wonder what % of eligible men anywhere own their own homes.
The fertility rate in China is way below replacement to the point the population will decline. Like American Women, some Chinese women are deciding just to opt out of child bearing.
America has a ways to go before the rate is a low as China fortunately.
Is there some new population shortage China I’m not aware of that pressures women to hurry up get married and breed?
And most likely that choice will not be a Chinese man.
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