China stresses family values as more women put off marriage, childbirth
China stresses family values as more women put off marriage, childbirth
- April 19, 2021
- Wang Feng, sociology, The Wall Street Journal, April 19, 2021
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In 1990, almost all Chinese women married before the age of 30, according to Wang Feng, a sociology professor at the University of California, Irvine. By 2015, in cities like Shanghai, around one-fifth of women were still unmarried by their 30th birthday, Prof. Wang estimates.
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