China's Leftover Women : Spinsters at 27?
A study by the Chinese government agency, the All-China Women’s Federation, has found that the average age for Chinese women to get hitched is 26. The publication titled the “Happy Marriage & Household Report” also underlines that nine out of ten Chinese women are wed before turning thirty. The findings have taken Chinese social media by storm, and the hashtag “ Average Age to Marry in China is 26” (#我国平均26岁结婚#) has gone virral. Of course, for many Western women like myself, these findings hardly seem like anything more than just some banal statistics. In the UK, where I grew up, the average age for women to walk down the aisle is 28.9 years. However, this fact hardly makes me feel under any pressure to start dropping hints about tying the knot to my boyfriend – even if I just turned 27. Not only does this issue completely fail to bother me, but it’s also barely a big deal in British society. On the contrary, some British men would even argue that ladies grow even more attractive in their thirties. Having travelled more, honed their careers, experienced the ups and downs of relationships, these women are definitely more independent, savvy and confident than their twenty-something counterparts. However, in China, it seems to be a totally different story. The age of 26 […]
Dec 27, 2015