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Time running out for Hong Kong-listed firms to get women on board: HKEX’s Bonnie Chan

Multilingual writers enrich the world’s literary canon

How this organiser went from corporate DEI to planning music festivals

Elderly from Hong Kong’s ethnic minorities learn to cope with hurdles through arts

Diversity and inclusion

International Women’s Day 2022: gender equality in China

Illustration: Brian Wang.

News

China

China’s city elites wake up to scale of trafficking after chained woman shows human side of age-old crime

The Cage by The Bald Stubborn Person is one of the artworks submitted for the “Breaking Chains” online exhibition. Photo: Handout

Xiaohuamei, a mother of eight, was shown in an online video chained to wall by her neck. Her story has gripped China and sparked a national conversation about human trafficking. Photo: Weibo

Artists, poets, lawyers and netizens have expressed shock about the plight of rural women sold to men and anger over authorities’ failure to protect.


Familiar barriers put China’s women scientists a long way from the top

Illustration: Lau Ka-kuen

China has introduced measures to address its shortage of female scientific and technological leaders. Photo: AFP

Is China doing enough to reverse its shortage of women in the highest ranks of science and technology research?


China’s ‘she economy’ booms as young and financially independent women spend for themselves

Chinese women comprise the world’s third-largest consumer market – close to the combined retail markets of Germany, France and the United Kingdom – and have reshaped the nation’s economic trajectory. Illustration: Lau Ka-kuen

The Mafa Bazaar in Guangdong has attracted more than 10,000 young businesswomen since opening nine years ago. Photo: SCMP

The Mafa Bazaar is a popular arts-and-crafts fair and flee market in Guangdong. Photo: SCMP

Chinese women comprise the world’s third-largest consumer market – close to the combined retail markets of Germany, France and the United Kingdom – and have reshaped the nation’s economic trajectory.


The theme for International Women’s Day 2022 on March 8 is “Break the Bias”, which asks us to imagine a world free of bias, stereotypes and discrimination. In this series, the South China Morning Post looks at issues that women in China continue to face before this ideal is achieved.


Women and gender

Series

Gender equality in China

The theme for International Women’s Day 2022 on March 8 is “Break the Bias”, which asks us to imagine a world free of bias, stereotypes and discrimination. In this series, the South China Morning Post looks at issues that women in China continue to face before this ideal is achieved.

‘She is multitudes’: why China’s chained woman struck a nerve

Artists, poets, lawyers and netizens have expressed shock about the plight of rural women sold to men and anger over authorities’ failure to protect.

Familiar barriers put China’s women scientists a long way from the top

Is China doing enough to reverse its shortage of women in the highest ranks of science and technology research?

‘I’m my own hero’: independent women fuel China’s booming ‘she economy’

Chinese women comprise the world’s third-largest consumer market – close to the combined retail markets of Germany, France and the United Kingdom – and have reshaped the nation’s economic trajectory.