GLOBAL TIMES - Dec 6 - In a recently released report on Shanghai women's development over the past 40 years, the federation said that the "two-child" policy has intensified the invisible discrimination against women because companies consider more issues when hiring them. Both men and women in Shanghai get married later than the national average. By 2015, the average age of getting married for men and women in Shanghai was 30.3 and 28.4 respectively, growing 5 and 5.4 years compared with 2005. A survey carried out in 2010 by the Journalism School at Fudan University said among ~900 female university graduates from 17 Chinese universities, ~70% said their greatest fear is becoming a 3S lady - meaning single, born in the 70s and stuck. Previously, these single women were stigmatized and called "leftover women." These women are mostly independent and educated, around the expected age of marriage, and still single. The number of married women between 25 and 29 years of age dropped by 11.5% from 2005 to 2015. The decrease was 7.6% for women 30 - 34. For men, there is no significant change, according to the report.
by Zhang Dan
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