2024-12-06
24 分钟Discussion keeps the world turning.
This is Round Table.
In a groundbreaking shift, young Chinese women are now more educated than their husbands.
Could we see a redefinition of traditional roles?
Or will tensions arise as the balance tilts?
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Coming to you from Beijing, this is Roundtable.
I'm Heyoung.
For today's program, I'm joined by Steve Hatherley and Yu Shan.
First on today's show.
Recent studies show that young Chinese women born after 1999 are now more educated than their husbands on average.
A shift that has far reaching implications.
This is happening not only in China, but in developed countries too.
What does this mean for relationships, household decisions and gender roles moving forward?
So tell us, what has changed, Yu.
Xian here in China?
Well, the new study was published earlier this year in a paper by Cheng Shu Song.
So he is the director of East China Normal University's Population Research Institute, which kind of start up heated discussion online lately after Chinese media outlet the paper reported its findings online.
So basically, Qing's project analyzed data collected from over 12,000 married couples born between 1950 and 1994 taken from the China Family Panel Studies that's conducted by Peking University.