Society
China's population

No longer ‘leftover’: China’s women take charge

What started as a government-backed campaign to shame women in their late 20s and 30s who didn’t marry and have children has backfired spectacularly. Hear from the daughters of the one child policy; now the most educated, affluent women in Chinese history, and what they think about career, marriage and children.

This is episode 2 of China's Demographic Revolution, a 5-part series of the Inside China podcast.

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