SOCI 255 Chapter reading: Reading Fincher Leftover Women Introduction
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Li fang was relieved she found a husband just in time. Her parents were worried that she was getting too old and would not be able to marry and have children - she was 25. After she got married, she loft her job because her company did not want her to take two weeks of unpaid leave for a honeymoon. Instead of asking her husband to share more money with her, she is using her savings to pay for groceries, transportation and clothing. She feels she has no claim to ownership of her home she shares with her husband because the home is registered under his name. Marriage does not provide li with any shared ownership of assets, property or income even though she lost her job because she got married. She considers herself lucky because she got married and was not branded a leftover woman.
