This microcosmic portrayal of the history of life for women reveals a society in which women remained the second sex. Naturally this was an environment very conducive to female infanticide in the countryside, to sterilizing women (but not men), and to having punishments for violation of the onechild policy fall far more heavily on women than on men.
這樣一個女人生活史的縮影已經勾勒出一個女人仍為第二性的社會，自然是農村殺女嬰，職場結紮女性（而非男性），置壓力於懲罰違背生育政策之女身遠過於男身的良好背景。