Posts Tagged“gender issues”

Shaming Sheng Nu: career Chinese women are are not leftovers

Think that women (more or less) have equal rights in most developed nations around the world? This assumption would be wrong, as there are many nations where social conventions are markedly different from those in the West. In many Far East nations such as China, there has been a long-held social norm that women are to be married before the age of 25; if they are still single after that age, it is generally assumed that there is something (be it something physical, emotional, or mental) wrong with them. Even in today’s world, women that fall into this category are…