Not so long ago, Japanese women who remained unmarried after the age of 25 were referred to as “Christmas cake,” a slur comparing them to old holiday pastries that cannot be sold after Dec. 25. Today, such outright insults have faded as a growing number of Japanese women are postponing or forgoing marriage, rejecting the…
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“Not Just a Maid”: The Ultra-Running Domestic Workers of Hong Kong
Foreign maids first arrived in Hong Kong in the 1970s, when there was a shortage of local full-time housekeepers as the economy began to take off in line with China’s opening up. Today, there are 380,000 maids who make up five percent of the population. Now, a growing community of maids have taken up trail…
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