Leftover Ladies in China

I am quite interested in Xiaoxin's lecture today, and I have some thoughts on the leftover ladies which Xiaoxin interprets as a kind of "failing Chinese women". In my opinion, the rise in leftorver ladies in China is due to the traditional Chinese value that "women are inferior than men".
I think the the swift growth of leftover ladies in China is inevitable due to the change in gender roles in the society. As they receive the opportunity to attend schools and work in offices, women also gain the right to find their true loves. Although women become progressively independent and successful, they are less competitive on the stage of marriage than their forebears. Even though modern women in China recognize themselves as an equal to men, they still maintain the traditional standard of finding husbands who have a higher status and income than they do. Unfortunately, this mind-restricting tradition applies to men too. In other words, an outstanding woman wishes to marry a more successful man, but a high qualified man would rather find a less educated woman, so an outstanding woman doesn’t have a perfect match and becomes “leftover”.
In this way, women face trade-offs between independence and marriage. There are a few women who choose independence because they feel free and comfortable to stay single and don’t want to be caged by marriage. They retain this unwavering belief regardless of what others comment. In this situation, they are proud to be called “leftover-ladies”. The majority of women in China still prefer to find a husband because the tradition of “family” is deep-rooted in their mind through their culture. An unmarried forty-year-old man can be understood by the society because he has been pursuing his career, but a single thirty-year-old woman faces pressure from different aspects in her life, including her family, her peers and the society.