Caving to online male backlash that included a threatened boycott, Chinese e-commerce giant JD.com announced that it would scrap its November 11 âSingles Dayâ shopping festival collaboration with comedian Yang Li (ć¨çŹ , YĂĄng LĂŹ)....
The Chinese Ministry of Civil Affairs has unveiled a revised draft law that would make it simpler to register marriages and potentially more difficult to divorce. The proposed changes, billed as helping to create a âfamily...
This yearâs March 8 U.N. International Womenâs Day slogan âInvest in Women: Accelerate Progressâ draws attention to the $360 billion annual deficit in gender-equality measures by 2030. According to the United Nations, there are...
The censorship of a WeChat article about gender- and age-based employment discrimination against Chinaâs post-1990s generation of women is but the latest indicator of the Party-stateâs crackdown on womenâs voices in the public...
This yearâs United Nations theme for March 8 International Womenâs Day (IWD) is âDigitALL: Innovation and technology for gender equality,â highlighting gender gaps in STEM education and careers, as well as the online harassment...
March 8 is International Womenâs Day (IWD), a global holiday focusing on gender equality, the rights of working women, reproductive rights, and the reduction of violence against women, among other issues. This yearâs United...
Last week, the Chinese government announced that the countryâs population had declined for the first time in decades, setting off a cacophony of alarm bells among those concerned about Chinaâs demographic destiny. Chinese women,...
Last week, Chinaâs National Health Commission admitted that the country is expecting negative population growth over the next few years. Declining birth rates across several provinces this year suggest that Chinaâs population...
On Monday, several activists wore t-shirts emblazoned with the question âWhere Is Peng Shuai?â to a match at Wimbledon in order to raise awareness about the Chinese tennis star. Peng has been absent from international media...
Life has not gotten easier for Chinaâs LGBTQ+ communities. A looming demographic crisis has inspired calls to strengthen traditional family structures and produce more children, while rising nationalism and xenophobia have...
The third installation in CDTâs series of international Womenâs Day protest art focuses on public banners and other artwork. Many of the banners come from college campuses, where some male students have invented a March 7...
A heavily censored version of the American sitcom âFriendsâ has been released across Chinese streaming platforms, eliciting derision and despair from millions of fans who fell in love with the original, un-cut version of the...
Alibaba has fired the employee who in August accused a manager of rape in apparent retaliation for her story going public. The victim, surnamed Zhou, alleged that her manager raped her after a boozy client dinner. Her accusation...
Following a recent national edict requiring Chinese TV to be kept free from âsissy boys,â a sneering term for men with styles unbound by traditional conceptions of masculinity, the Beijing Municipal Radio and Television Bureau...
Weibo users this week hurled ridicule at a call from the Chinese Ministry of Educationâs to prevent the âfeminizationâ of boys by encouraging schools to hire more male gym teachers. The Ministry of Educationâs statement was a...
Beijing-based womenâs rights activist Xiao Meili recently introduced her friend Ma Hu with the first two parts of a three-part profile. Part one told the story of Ma Huâs childhood, and how she dealt with her gender and sexual...
Beijing-based womenâs rights activist Xiao Meili recently introduced her friend Ma Hu with the...
Beijing-based women’s rights activist Xiao Meili recently shared part one of a two-part...
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