In this short Vice documentary, journalist Milène Larsson meets with Chinese women deemed 'sheng nu' or 'leftover women' – unmarried women over the age of 27 – and examines the recent deterioration of women's social status since the Cultural Revolution.

With over 20 million more men than women in China, it's difficult to see how there could be women who are labeled 'leftover'.

And yet, the derogatory term 'sheng nu' is often applied to women who reach their late twenties without marrying.

This documentary, presented by Broadly, Vice's dedicated platform for issues related to gender and identity, charts the shift in women's position within Chinese society in the years since the Cultural Revolution of the 1960s and 1970s.

In a country with soaring domestic violence rates, where most women fear to call themselves feminists, women's constitutionally enshrined equal status appears to be dwindling.