​On the other hand, there is a strong cultural tradition of gender inequality in China which still influences today's culture massively. Abortion of female fetuses is still widespread in China even if prenatal gender determination is officially not allowed. This leads to a significant imbalance in gender ratio at birth and to sex ratio with far more men than women, especially in the younger generations. Traditionally, especially in rural China a daughter, who is married is considered as spilled water - she has no value to her own family because she becomes a part of her husband's family and has to care for her parents-in-law. The movie “SPILLED WATER” from 2014 explores how the economic transformation of China is changing the roles, rights, and social status of its women:https://www.spilledwaterdoc.com/
Women are still completely under-represented in the Communist Parties higher decision-making bodies and only a bit more that 20% of Party members are female. Families put their daughters under enormous pressure to find a husband in their mid-twenties – the term “Leftover women” classifies women who remain unmarried in their late twenties and beyond. SK-II addressed the topic already in 2016 with the very controversial campaign“Marriage Market Takeover”and in 2017 with the video“The Expiry Date”