Beatrix: This book,it’s ...it’s changed things for me ,Mr.Warne.
Norman: How?
Beatrix: Well, for one thing, it’s given me the chance to prove to my mother that an unmarried woman of 32 can do more than attend tea parties and...and smile at dull conversations.
There is an opinion that A-quality guys will find B-quality women.B-quality guys will find C-quality women, and C-quality men will find D-quality women.The people left are A-quality women and D-quality men. So if you are a leftover woman, you are A-quality.
Leftover women, sharing a name with the sloppy doggy bags carrying remnants of meals gone by, is an interesting social phenomenon in China. Why are these ladies being set apart? Why don’t men want them? In a land with a male dominated gender imbalance, how can this be happening?
According to a 2012 survey by Horizon China of home buying in the cities of Beijing, Shanghai, Guangzhou and Shenzhen, only 30% of marital home deeds include the woman's name, even though over 70% of women contribute to the marital home purchase.
"The institution of marriage basically benefits men, and when women are hurt, this institution doesn't protect our rights," a young woman in Beijing recently told me. "The most rational choice is to stay single."
Pretty girls do not need a lot of education to marry into a rich and powerful family. But girls with an average or ugly appearance will find it difficult," reads an excerpt from an article titled, Leftover Women Do Not Deserve Our Sympathy, posted on the website of the All-China Federation of Women in March 2011.
It continues: "These girls hope to further their education in order to increase their competitiveness. The tragedy is, they don't realise that as women age, they are worth less and less. So by the time they get their MA or PhD, they are already old - like yellowed pearls."
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