Understanding the Phenomenon of Leftover Women in China

Is it Reality or Myth?

DOI

10.2991/assehr.k.211220.380How to use a DOI?

Keywords

Leftover women; Gender discrimination; Traditional patriarchal ideology; Egalitarianism; Gender equality

Abstract

In recent years, the term “leftover women”, “Single, Seventies, Stuck” SSS women, and “Single, Eighties, Stuck” SES women—highly educated, successful in their careers, unmarried in in their late twenties—has emerged frequently in the mass media. The official interpretation and media representations of the phenomenon of leftover women, and points out that the term leftover woman is a stigma attached to single women by the state-led media campaign [1]. This article investigates the root causes of the phenomenon of leftover women, and reveals that the phenomenon of leftover women is the resurgence of gender inequality in China, which implies the traditional patriarchal ideology. At last, the article discusses the influence of patriarchal ideology on single women’s attitudes toward marriage that further explores the phenomenon of leftover women from the perspective of single women.

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© 2021 The Authors. Published by Atlantis Press SARL.

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This is an open access article under the CC BY-NC license.

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TY  - CONF
AU  - Yadi Xu
PY  - 2021
DA  - 2021/12/24
TI  - Understanding the Phenomenon of Leftover Women in China
BT  - Proceedings of the 2021 4th International Conference on Humanities Education and Social Sciences (ICHESS 2021)
PB  - Atlantis Press
SP  - 2205
EP  - 2209
SN  - 2352-5398
UR  - https://doi.org/10.2991/assehr.k.211220.380
DO  - 10.2991/assehr.k.211220.380
ID  - Xu2021
ER  -