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Via All-China Women's Federation
China - Women’s
Progress Questioned
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Han Qi
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China,
home to one in five of the world’s women, is among the few countries where
women are experiencing a rights rollback, according to feminists, researchers
and data from the All-China Women’s Federation, which is appointed and run by
the government to represent women’s interests.
In the government’s most recent measure of how women
are faring — the Third Survey of the Social Status of Women in China, conducted
in 2010 — nearly 62 percent of men and nearly 55 percent of women said “men
belong in public life and women belong at home,” increases of 7.7 and 4.4
percentage points from 2000.
Women’s incomes are falling relative to men’s; traditional attitudes are relegating women to the home; and women’s net wealth may be shrinking. While female parliamentary representation elsewhere is rising, the percentage of women in China’s national legislature, the National People’s Congress, has flat-lined for decades at just over 20 percent........