Thoughts on leftover women

The more that I think about China's "leftover women" the more it seems like a weird puzzle. From my perspective almost all of what the situation entails doesn't make sense. Women who are smart, successful, young, and presumed to be good looking should have no trouble finding partners. It only becomes more irrational to me considering how China's population is predominantly male; there should be plenty of men looking for a spouse. If anything, the women should be the ones with the power in finding a partner and there should be a "leftover male" problem.

In the United States many of the qualities that leftover women posses are thought to be beneficial when looking for a partner. Even their "old" age is a non-issue. This has me wondering how much of what we discussed all semester only applies in our culture? We do seem to compare what we read only to the values of our society. Is it possible that on some of the more recent articles we've looked at from other places around the world that we may have misinterpreted things due to looking at them from the wrong context?