The days of female Chinese migrant workers
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PHOTOS: In China, rural elderly are being left behind
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At this construction site in a new residential development zone outside Shanghai’s city center, women work, eat and live together.
July 2, 2013 Ou Mei, a 45-year-old migrant construction worker, shields her face from dust during a shift at a residential construction site in the Jiading district of suburban Shanghai. The construction site is part of a developing residential area about 19 miles from the city center. About a third of China's millions of rural-urban migrant workers are women. Aly Song/Reuters
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Many older Chinese are struggling with poverty and loneliness as their children flee villages for cities, fraying family ties.