Women in China community chat group required to share menstrual dates, raises privacy concerns

Anger after village doctor asks for period dates, phone numbers; online critics slam move, ask if next step is ‘forced ...
Council on Foreign Relations

Gendered Legacies of Control: How China’s Population Policies Reshaped Women’s Lives

Guest Contributors Tahina Montoya is a defense and policy researcher at RAND, and Kelly Atkinson is a political scientist at RAND.
The New York Times

China Hosts a Summit on Women’s Rights, While Stifling Activism

The conference was billed as a celebration of China’s achievements in supporting women. But the government has mostly wiped out independent advocacy groups. By Vivian Wang Reporting from Beijing China ...
Reuters

How China’s female entrepreneurs are leading the fight to topple gender barriers

Industry Insight from Ethical Corporation Magazine, a part of Thomson Reuters. Chinese women have higher employment rates than the UK and U.S. 41% of Chinese tech companies have female founders Gender ...
The Diplomat

A UN Conference Can’t Hide China’s Discomfort With Women’s Rights

Thirty years after the landmark Beijing Declaration and Platform for Action, adopted at the Fourth World Conference on Women in Beijing in 1995, promised to advance women’s rights and empowerment ...
East Asia Forum

Women’s rights remain on the sidelines at China’s Two Sessions

At China’s 2025 Two Sessions, women’s rights received minimal attention despite the government announcing a global summit on gender equality later in the year. While female representation in the ...