ABSTRACT
This chapter explores discrimination in the marriage market, it has been established that almost all of the 'leftover women' have traditional marriage views and see marriage as something that has to be done. In order to ensure that women kept to the household, their parents would bind their feet into tiny bundles in their young age so as to restrict their movement, and also to symbolically indicate that they had observed their 'feminine propriety'. Chinese women described their partners and suitors as being hen you yali in the face of their exceptionally high qualifications. In studies that investigated the partner choice criteria of Chinese women and men, it was indeed found that men put more emphasis on women's appearances, while women put more emphasis on men's economic status. As women's more mature age was usually a reflection of their higher socioeconomic status, they would still be disadvantaged all the same in any patriarchal marriage market.
