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Friday, May 26, 2023
Where are the women in Chinese politics?
The 20th Chinese Communist Party National Congress, held in October 2022, caught the world’s attention—not least because there wasn’t a single woman among the politburo’s 24 members, breaking a tradition of two decades. While the number of women in...
Chinese President Xi Jinping is surrounded by men Photograph: Kevin Frayer/Getty Images
Monday, November 14, 2022
Women pushed even further from power in Xi Jinping’s China
Xi has revealed an all male politburo for the first time since 1997. The move erases one of the few steps women had made towards real power in Communist China Across seven decades of turmoil and change, one thing about China’s leadership has...
Friday, September 23, 2016
Women gain political representation and leadership in rural China
Liao Bin, from the Hunan province in China, was elected as the head of her Village Committee at 27. Her average day looks like this: hours spent in efforts to boost the economy of the village, caring for left-behind children of migrant workers, and...
Tuesday, March 18, 2014
When women succeed, the world succeeds
Human rights are women's rights and women's rights are human rights.” So proclaimed Hillary Clinton, US First Lady at the United Nations World Conference on Women in Beijing, China, in 1995, in a landmark speech of her career. Despite Clinton’s...
Wednesday, May 30, 2012
Women Gain More Say In China's Politics
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. For more information, please visit People's Daily Online .