Even though the numbers of boys and girls were practically equal, the Chinese tradition that husbands should be older than their wives meant that women born after 1950 had a hard time finding husbands of a suitable age.
雖然出生人口差不多都是男女各半，然而中國人丈夫年長於太太的傳統，使得民國四十年後出生的女性找不到等量的年長男性匹配。