Gender Equality In China

“Women hold up half the sky”-Mao Zedong

Some socialist or communist countries changed their legal systems to make everyone equal.

China, the world’s most populous nation, has the biggest gender gap in the world due to a sexist culture.

Female Babies and Gendercide Infanticide and abandonment of female

babies by Chinese parents wanting a son has become rare, but now there is sex selective abortion.

Due to the one child policy there is a shortage of females in China. By 2020, there will be an estimated 40 million Chinese men that will not be able to find Chinese brides.

Up to 90% of second pregnancies that are female end in abortion.

Female Roles Male villagers believe that women are incapable

of being leaders because they are “weak” and because of their physical condition.

Studies show that few women have gotten training and benefits from village-level poverty reduction programs.

Women have less decision making powers at home and less chance of receiving education, nutrition and health care.

Illness rates are 5% higher in women than men. More than 70% of women in Houhe Village suffer

from gynaecological illnesses.

http://www.pbs.org/kqed/chinainside/women/population.html

http://www.10thnpc.org.cn/english/China/141286.htm

http://www.stockton.edu/~gilmorew/consorti/2neasia.htm