"Huang Yuanyuan is working late at her job in a Beijing radio newsroom. She's also stressing out about the fact that the next day, she'll turn 29.

"Scary. I'm one year older," she says. "I'm nervous."

Why?

"Because I'm still single. I have no boyfriend. I'm having big pressure to get married": pressure from her parents, from friends, and from society.

Huang is a confident, personable young woman with a good salary, her own apartment, an MA from one of China's top universities, and a wealth of friends. Still, she knows that these days, single, urban, educated women like her in China are called "sheng nu" or "leftover women" — and it stings."*

China has developed a sexist media campaign, calling accomplished, educated, yet single women over 27 "leftover women." It not the fault of these women that there is a disproportionate number of men in China, so why should they be shamed into settling down? Cenk Uygur and Ana Kasparian discuss the campaign.

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