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China: Chinese Women Lag Only in Politics

Submitted by iKNOW Politics on Tue, 2010-03-09 20:40
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Despite remarkable progress in improving the status of women in social and economic terms, China lags the rest of Asia in empowering women politically, a United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) study has found.

But some six decades after Mao Zedong famously declared “women hold up half the sky”, women in China fare far better overall than their counterparts in India and the rest of the Asia-Pacific on almost every economic indicator, according to the report.

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China: Equality for Women Still Far Behind

Submitted by iKNOW Politics on Wed, 2010-03-03 20:01
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"Equal rights, equal opportunities, progress for all" is the theme for the celebration of International Women's Day at the United Nations in New York on Wednesday.
"To me, the conference served as a wake-up call. Although many Chinese women had received higher education and become mid-level managers, I was reminded of the challenges we still faced." as Li Xing writes on China Daily.

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Consolidated Response on the Impact of Religion on Women’s Leadership Roles in Politics and Public Life

This consolidated response highlights the impact of religious norms and religion on women’s political participation. The response also describes women’s participation in religious institutions and religious political parties, as well as women’s resistance to religious limitations to their political participation.

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Practitioner’s Guide to Designing Inclusive and Accountable Local Democratic Institutions

This guide is the first of its kind to provide an overview of the current range of local representative arrangements and electoral systems in Asia and the Pacific. This easy-to-use guide will assist country offices/teams and government partners as programmes are shaped to make local decision-making processes more inclusive and accountable to all citizens.

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China: Educate Women for 'Better Society'

Submitted by iKNOW Politics on Wed, 2007-11-28 11:22
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China has to improve women's education to make them a real force in society because empowerment of women in the country still lags behind the UN Millennium Development Goal. This in gist is what women leaders from across the Asia and Pacific region said at the Asian Women Parliamentarians' and Ministers' Conference Tuesday.

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China: China's 'Iron Lady' Retires From Politics

Submitted by iKNOW Politics on Mon, 2007-10-22 06:54
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China's most powerful woman politician, Wu Yi, ranked No. 2 in the world's 100 most powerful women by Forbes this year, retired from active politics here Sunday.

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South Korean President Meets China's Women Federation President

Submitted by iKNOW Politics on Thu, 2007-06-07 06:53
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South Korean President Roh Moo-hyun met in Seoul on Thursday with visiting President of the All-China Women's Federation Gu Xiulian, who was here for the forth Sino-Korean women leaders' forum.

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Women Gain More Say In China's Politics

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Submitted by bsalimova on Tue, 2007-05-15 00:35
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Chinese women have more say in politics, with more than 200 of them now in positions of the governors, cabinet ministers or holding posts equivalent to that level.

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The Role and Practice of Legislative Hearings in Democracies: Examples from Germany and the United States

This paper was written for a series of seminars on public legislative hearings held in Beijing and Shanghai, China. The purpose of the paper is to provide Chinese participants with first-hand accounts of the context and functioning of public hearings in the United States and Germany, where public hearings are more integrated into the legislative process.

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