28.05.2021_Edi

Japanese women have led the way. As early as the noughties, women in China’s trendy neighbor began to forego marriage. The majority of them are well-educated and would rather have a career and enjoy life than do the dishes and look after the children – because that’s what their husbands would have expected of them. The same thing is happening in China now, as Marcel Grzanna reports. Here, as there, government planners are looking at the trend with concern. Because even today, fewer marriages go hand in hand with a lower birth rate.