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Women enjoy more say as social status improves
By Jane Chen |
March 8, 2010, Monday
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CHINESE women are enjoying more say in politics as the country's efforts to erase gender discrimination and raise female's social status are paying off.
There are eight women central government officials and more than 670 women mayors nationwide as well as more than 230 women provincial level officials, according to statistics revealed by today's Nanfang Daily.
But what annoys women leaders most still comes from their gender difference, that is how to deal with the male colleagues, such as how to react when male colleagues are enjoying a sex joke, a survey by the newspaper indicated.
Of the delegates at the ongoing annual session of the Chinese National Congress in Beijing, 22 percent are women. That proportion is expected to rise further as the lawmakers are to discuss a proposal tomorrow to increase the women delegates' ratio to 25 percent, according to female delegate Qiu Mei, vice dean of CNC Shenzhen committee.
The women delegates celebrate the 100th anniversary of the annual International Working Women's Day today by voicing women's views on the country's political issues, she added.
Women have accounted for 45 percent of China's working force and more than 40 percent of government workers, according to Chen Zhili, president of the All China Women's Federation. Nearly half of the country's college graduates are females, she added.
Despite that, efforts are still needed to increase the number of elite female professionals, she pointed out.
Only 5 percent of the Chinese Academies of Sciences, the country's association of top scientists, are women, she said.
There are eight women central government officials and more than 670 women mayors nationwide as well as more than 230 women provincial level officials, according to statistics revealed by today's Nanfang Daily.
But what annoys women leaders most still comes from their gender difference, that is how to deal with the male colleagues, such as how to react when male colleagues are enjoying a sex joke, a survey by the newspaper indicated.
Of the delegates at the ongoing annual session of the Chinese National Congress in Beijing, 22 percent are women. That proportion is expected to rise further as the lawmakers are to discuss a proposal tomorrow to increase the women delegates' ratio to 25 percent, according to female delegate Qiu Mei, vice dean of CNC Shenzhen committee.
The women delegates celebrate the 100th anniversary of the annual International Working Women's Day today by voicing women's views on the country's political issues, she added.
Women have accounted for 45 percent of China's working force and more than 40 percent of government workers, according to Chen Zhili, president of the All China Women's Federation. Nearly half of the country's college graduates are females, she added.
Despite that, efforts are still needed to increase the number of elite female professionals, she pointed out.
Only 5 percent of the Chinese Academies of Sciences, the country's association of top scientists, are women, she said.
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