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China - Women’s Progress Questioned 

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/03/07/world/asia/chinese-womens-progress-stalls-in-varied-standards.html?pagewanted=all - Full Article
	Han Qi On Valentine's Day in Beijing, women dressed in white bridal gowns smeared with red paint to protest domestic violence. The women's posters read, left to right:  "Love is no excuse for violence"; "Only Equality is Harmonious"; "Violence is not a Special Zone"; "When Violence is around you, are you still silent?" - March 6,  2012

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........