As Xi Jinping consolidates power at China's 20th Communist Party Congress this week, Chinese women are not holding their breath for progress in gender equality.
Xi's decade as the party's general secretary has seen the number of women in politics and elite government roles decline and gender gaps in the workforce widen, academics and activists say. Feminist voices have also been muzzled and in recent years, the government has increasingly emphasised the value of traditional roles for women as mothers and carers, they add.
Next in the party's hierarchy is the central committee, where women currently comprise 8%, or 30 positions, among its full and alternate members' total of 371. That's down from 10% in 2007. And of China's 31 provincial-level governors, just two are women.The lack of senior female politicians appears to be at odds with a broad push by the Communist Party to increase female representation that saw the proportion of women party members climb to 29% in 2021, up from 24% in 2012.
"The environment has certainly gotten worse...it doesn't mean that it was good before, it has always been bad, just now that exploitation has become more convenient," said Grace Wang, 28.
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