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Women's traditional gender role in China focused on staying at home and taking care of the house and family, while the men go and provide at work. [43] These attitudes on women's gender role are still persistent in China today, and negatively affect the amount of jobs, work hours, and pay that women are offered. [43]
Gender disparity persisted into the 1990s for tertiary institutions. [89] By 2009, however, half of all college students were women. [90]: 69 China's rate of increase in women's higher education levels has been substantially greater than countries with similar, and some countries with higher, per capita income levels. [90]: 69
From the Han dynasty (206 BC-220 CE) until the modern period (1840–1919), scholars and rulers developed a male-dominated patriarchal society in China. [8] Patriarchy is a social and philosophical system where men are considered as superior to women, and thus men should have more power in decision-making than women. [9]
However, despite the gender quota established by Mao, women were severely under-represented in the more powerful positions. [8] Subsequent party leaders such as Zhao Ziyang strongly opposed women's participation in the political process. [9] In terms of the number of women in parliament, China went from 17th in the world in 1997 to 87th in 2023 ...
At the beginning of 2017, the Chinese government modified its family planning laws to allow married couples to have a second child. In 2016 the National Health and Family Planning Commission of China reported that live births in national hospitals numbered 18.46 million and the fertility rate reached 1.7 percent, the highest rate since 2000.
Today, the state approaches the issue, not as a political problem but a socio-economic problem that require socio-economic solutions. [12] China's legal system is facing the intricate challenges posed by the political and social dynamics resulting from its rapid economic expansion.
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The concept of Non-Government Organization (NGO) was thus introduced into China, giving rise to many feminist alliances in 21st century China, such as the Beijing Zhongze Legal Consulting Service Center led by Guo Jianmei, the Henan Shequ Educational Research Center, and the Anti-Domestic Violence Network which spearheaded the 20-year long ...