This year’s March 8 U.N. International Women’s Day slogan “Invest in Women: Accelerate Progress” draws attention to the $360 billion annual deficit in gender-equality measures by 2030. According to the United Nations, there are...
In 2014, Leta Hong Fincher published her first book, Leftover Women: The Resurgence of Gender Inequality in China, which used the lens of home ownership and marital property rights to examine women’s rights in China and the...
Last week, China’s National Health Commission admitted that the country is expecting negative population growth over the next few years. Declining birth rates across several provinces this year suggest that China’s population...
A longstanding regulation that prohibits single women from freezing their eggs gained renewed...
In the New York Times, Didi Kirsten Tatlow and Michael Forsythe report on a regressive attitude...
On her blog China Law and Policy, Elizabeth Lynch interviews Leta Hong Fincher about her book...
At China Radio International, in an almost hourlong podcast, Leftover Women author Leta Hong...
CDT interviews Leta Hong Fincher about her new book, Leftover Women: The Resurgence of Gender...
Leta Hong Fincher’s first book Leftover Women: The Resurgence of Gender Inequality in China (Zed...
In an interview with Shanghaiist, Leta Hong Fincher discusses the way China’s real estate...
An excerpt from journalist and scholar Leta Hong Fincher’s upcoming book Leftover...
At Foreign Policy Liz Carter explains that while lonely Americans “have Reddit and...
For CNN’s “On China,” Tsinghua University scholar Leta Hong Fincher interviews...
Beauty products company Dove is taking their “Real Beauty” campaign to China. The campaign aims “to challenge beauty stereotypes and invite women to join a discussion about beauty.” It has been rolled out in the USA, Canada,...
The issue of so-called leftover women, or women who remain unmarried in their late 20s, is again in the media spotlight thanks to a bilingual book by Joy Chen titled, “Do Not Marry Before Age 30.” American Public...
At Daily Life, Monica Tan tells of her experience alongside scores of China’s “leftover women” (剩女)—the ranks of successful women in China who choose to remain single amid societal pressure and a skewed sex...
As the marriage market in China grows more competitive due to a surplus of men, some Chinese single ladies are starting to challenge the label of “leftover women”, a term used to describe unmarried women in their...
Al Jazeera’s The Stream reported today on a global trend toward women marrying later and advancing their own education and careers before creating a family. The show focuses on India and China, where, as Leta Hong Fincher...
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