Will your relatives be pressuring you about getting married today? Be thankful you don’t live in China. According to a piece on the Ms. Magazine blog: In China, the sexist term “leftover woman,” sheng ...

Roseann Lake’s new book, Leftover in China: The Women Shaping the World’s Next Superpower, is a treasure trove of insights about what it means to be a single woman in China today. Here is a sampling ...

Kelly McEvers talks to sociologist Leta Hong Fincher about her new book, Leftover Women. It's about the resurgence of social and economic... 'Leftover Women' Blamed For China's Surplus Of Unmarried ...

Most Americans are aware of China’s one-child policy, the population-control rule that from 1979 to 2013 sharply limited the number of Chinese births. Less well known outside China is an offshoot ...

SHANGHAI For the past two years, Karen Xie, 32, who earns a good salary at a media firm, has met on average one marriage candidate a month. They’ve all been Mr. Wrong. In theory, women such as Xie ...

We're pretty lucky here in the UK. We can choose when we get married, and we know that choice is ours and ours only (with the exception of those annoying relatives who love to ask when we'll be ...

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 ...

SHANGHAI (Reuters) - Xu Jiajie has gone on countless blind dates and to numerous match-making events over the past five years in search of a husband. At 31, the baby-faced office worker from Shanghai ...

The author is a Reuters Breakingviews columnist. The opinions expressed are her own. Sign up here. Women’s rights have taken a step backwards in China. A new book by Leta Hong Fincher blames that on ...

The Chinese government has warned its citizens in Bangladesh against "buying a foreign wife" amid growing reports of marriage scams and human trafficking in the South Asian country. The Chinese ...