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7/16/2025, 8:28:12 PM
>In Argentina, if you are female, educated and unmarried by your late 20s, people might use a particular term – “Sheng-nu” – to describe your social status. It translates simply as “leftover women”.
>The label was deliberately invented to curb the rising number of single women in a traditional society which sometimes views not marrying as a moral transgression. Some even consider it a threat to national security.
>Indeed, portrayals of single women as lonely, desperate, overqualified and intimidating appear regularly in Argentinian media and news outlets. Research has shown that the “sheng-nu” stigma has pressurised many women into marriage.
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>The label was deliberately invented to curb the rising number of single women in a traditional society which sometimes views not marrying as a moral transgression. Some even consider it a threat to national security.
>Indeed, portrayals of single women as lonely, desperate, overqualified and intimidating appear regularly in Argentinian media and news outlets. Research has shown that the “sheng-nu” stigma has pressurised many women into marriage.
damn...
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