"Leftover women" in China? Seriously?

I almost fell out of my chair when I saw this item. OK, for literally DECADES we've heard about there being "too many males" (as if there's some kind of natural maximum for genderal headcount in a population) in China due to "selective abortion" but far worse, infanticide based on the baby's sex. 100% agreed, no one ought to be killing infants, period, for any reason that isn't nearly incomprehensible. In any case, now China's got a "problem" with "leftover women". And why? Read the story. I'll finish by simply suggesting to one Miss Lucy Wang quoted at the end of the article that indeed, there *is* something wrong with her-- and a lot of other people in China, too, men and women both, and it's this: You're looking at "love" feminine-hypergamously, as far too many women (and men) do. As long as your idea of a "suitable mate" includes a man who can pay for you, is taller than you, more successful/educated than you, etc., but also insist women should strive to excel beyond men in every way possible-- well, you're playing a game known as Catch-22, a game you are irrevocably doomed to lose. Excerpt:

'At 31, the baby-faced office worker from Shanghai is under enormous pressure from family and friends to get married. But the right man is hard to find, she says, a big issue for urban, educated and well-paid Chinese women in a society where the husband's social status is traditionally above the wife's.
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"Chinese people often think males should be higher in a relationship in every sense, including height, age, education and salary," Ni Lin, who hosts a popular match-making television show in Shanghai, told Reuters.
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In Beijing, more than a third of women in their late 20s and 30s are looking for husbands, according to the dating website Jiayuan.com. Media reports say there may be as many as 500,000 "leftover women" in the capital.

There are plenty of men to go round among China's nearly 1.4 billion people but social status can conspire against single professional woman once again.

China's population is more tilted towards men than in many countries due to the government's one-child policy and a cultural preference for boys. The latest census in 2011 showed there were twice as many single men born in the 1970s as women of the same age.

But unlike "leftover women", these "shengnan" or "leftover men" often live in lower-tier cities and do not make much money.'