When it comes to the labor force, Chinese women are no longer holding up half the sky.
Women’s participation in China’s workforce has taken a nosedive in the last few decades. Credit: David Guyler, Creative Commons
For three decades, China’s embrace of capitalism has transformed the nation, fueling the fortunes of entrepreneurs and lifting hundreds of millions of people out of poverty. And yet one key group has been left behind: women.
In the latest indication of this trend, women have been found to be woefully under-represented at state-owned enterprises (SOEs), according to a recent study released by the Peterson Institute for International Economics (PIIE), a Washington-based think tank. The study,
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