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Women Power Up? Not Yet

Decades after Mao Zedong claimed that “women hold up half the sky”, the women’s rights movement in China is facing challenges. Ke Qianting at The Global Times says that  cultural and systematic elements as well as the lack of gender education in schools are impeding women’s development. Melissa Korn at the Wall Street Journal gives a detailed account of the discrimination ag