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China: Women Struggle for a Foothold in Chinese Politics
Submitted by iKNOW Politics on Thu, 2010-06-24 10:40
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The day she won election for village head of Gaojie, a hamlet of 1,217 in hilly loess country in northern Shaanxi Province, Bai Yitong was a fresh-faced 19-year-old with scraped-back hair and big, square-rimmed glasses. She is also part of a tiny minority of “just a few percent” of female village heads in China, according to Zou Xiaoqiao, a top official at the All-China Women’s Federation, the Communist Party-led women’s organization.
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China: Women Activists on the Forefront of Human Rights Movement
Submitted by iKNOW Politics on Wed, 2010-05-19 23:14
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According to China Human Rights Defenders (CHRD), a non-profit, non- political network of grassroots activists, the contribution of women like Liu to China’s human rights movement is often overlooked in the international media. In fact, said CHRD, there are many women at the forefront of China’s grassroots human rights movement working in various capacities to defend rights.
"A lot of the women are grassroots activists… they do a lot of work on the ground, at the grassroots level, and they are much better known within their own circle than at the international level," Wang Songlian, research coordinator for CHRD, tells IPS.
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China: Women lag only in politics
Submitted by iKNOW Politics on Mon, 2010-03-29 11:48
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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.
Women's participation in the labour force in China is now 70 per cent, far higher than the 35 per cent in South Asia and the global average of 53 per cent. Life expectancy has risen to 75 years, while female literacy rates are more than double India's.
“China stands out in its achievements and efforts to ensure gender equality, and China is ahead of most East Asian countries,” says Abhimanyu Singh, chair of the U.N. Theme Group on Gender in China, and UNESCO's representative in Beijing.
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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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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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