China Hosts a Summit on Women’s Rights, While Stifling Activism

The conference was billed as a celebration of China’s achievements in supporting women. But the government has mostly wiped ...

A Chinese Woman Builds a New Career in a Man’s World

An all-female repair business is challenging gender norms in China and catering to a growing population of single women ...
The DiplomatOpinion

A UN Conference Can’t Hide China’s Discomfort With Women’s Rights

Thirty years after the landmark Beijing Declaration and Platform for Action, adopted at the Fourth World Conference on Women ...

Digital Mulan program trains tens of thousands of Chinese rural women in digital skills, new job sectors

Three women practice photography skills they have learned in the Digital Mulan Homestay Manager Training Project in Xiangxi ...

China's Xi calls for more women in governance despite overseeing decline

In 2022, China for the first time in 20 years didn't have a woman among the 24 members of its Politburo or the seven members ...
China Daily

The woman who dared to drum

This invitation comes from He Guiying, the first woman ever to beat the sacred Jino drum in the deep rainforests of Southwest ...

In Ningxia's Hongsibu, 'zan jin' women – capable, daring, resilient, and unyielding – craft inspiring stories of triumph, weaving dreams into reality

In the Northwest Chinese dialect, it means capable, daring, resilient, and defiant of fate. In the golden autumn, the "zan ...
Newsweek

China Pressures Women To Help Avert Population Crisis

China is ramping up efforts to counter its plummeting birth rate, with measures ranging from cash incentives to controversial local campaigns urging women to have children. Last year marked the ...