Leftover women

剩女

"Leftover women" are generally referred to those women over the age of 27 or 30 who are still single. Usually they are well-educated, have a good salary and are professionally successful. According to statistics, the number of "leftover women" in Beijing has exceeded 800,000.(They have another name, 3S lady: single, seventies, stuck, which refers to an increasing group of modern urban women with three highs, including high education level, high income, and high IQ failing to find the Mr. Right in proper age and gradually become elder young women, is announced as one of the 171 new words in Chinese by Ministry of Education.)

“剩女”泛指年齡超過27或30歲的單身女性。通常她們都是受過良好教育，拿著優厚的薪水并且事業成功的女性。根據統計，北京剩女數量已經超過80萬。（她們還有另外一個稱號，3S女士：單身，70后，無奈，指的是逐步壯大的一群現代女性團體，她們擁有高學歷，高收入，高智商，卻沒有在合適的年齡找到自己的真命天子最終漸漸變成大齡剩女，教育部收錄其為中國171個新詞之一。）

代表人物：《BJ單身日記》里的布里奇特·瓊斯

32歲的布里奇特·瓊斯（蕾妮·齊維格）是一位單身女子，家住在倫敦西區，一天到晚做著電視公司研究員那份平淡無奇的工作。她沒什么野心和抱負，唯一的一點點愿望就是能減輕體重以及尋找到一份真正的愛情，可這些對她來說依然是那么遙不可及。