{"id":34115,"date":"2016-10-16T09:00:13","date_gmt":"2016-10-16T07:00:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.w-t-w.org\/en\/?p=34115"},"modified":"2016-10-16T09:01:59","modified_gmt":"2016-10-16T07:01:59","slug":"why-chinese-women-still-cant-get-a-break","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.w-t-w.org\/en\/why-chinese-women-still-cant-get-a-break\/","title":{"rendered":"Why Chinese Women Still Can\u2019t Get a Break"},"content":{"rendered":"

On a Saturday afternoon in late September, I sat in the brand-new auditorium of my former high school in Beijing, watching the gala for my 10-year reunion. Near the end, teachers stepped onto the stage to deliver speeches.<\/p>\n

\u201cGirls, I hope you will focus on finding your life partners,\u201d said the Chinese-language teacher, with the same stern air as when she urged us to succeed on the college entrance exam. \u201cMarriage cannot be delayed,\u201d the biology teacher said. The physical education teacher offered to set up single alumnae with eligible bachelors at her husband\u2019s company.<\/p>\n

At the dinner afterward, the conversation at my table turned to career changes. A friend surprised everyone by announcing that she would move to Shenzhen, a southern city, to look for a new job. Marveling at her courage but concerned about her decision, another classmate asked if she was aware of the \u201ccomplications\u201d faced by a childless woman seeking employment in her late 20s.<\/p>\n

My female classmates and I, beneficiaries of China<\/a>\u2019s economic boom, are cruising along exciting professional paths…..Why chinese women still cant get a break <\/a>\/nytimes<\/p>\n

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Lisk Feng<\/p><\/div>\n

Is it a wonder, then, that a growing number of professional women in China, buttressed by their education credentials and financial independence, are deciding to delay or forgo marriage and family? A 2010 study shows that half of the women with a university degree or above are unmarried or divorced. Derided as \u201cleftover women\u201d in the news media and by the government, they are subjects of well-intentioned exhortations, like those from my high school teachers, as well as less-than-generous assumptions from society at large.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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