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china has more women in positions of political representation than the us

nervousvarun 4y ago
By % of total offices or just raw total? China has over 4X the population of the US. Not to even mention different countries have different #s of political offices. Just seems like a difficult comparison to make.
- medo-bear 4y ago
  by % of total offices > Just seems like a difficult comparison to make >> China, Russia, Iran and North Korea — are repressive societies with few women in positions of power but generalizations like this are pretty easy
Nomentatus 4y ago
Voters who are told how to vote, sure. But certainly not power: No promotions for women at China’s party congress? Mimi Lau Published: 2:08pm, 10 Oct, 2022 https://www.scmp.com/news/article/3195409/no-promotions-women-chinas-party-congress?module=live&pgtype=homepage https://www.scmp.com/news/article/3195409/no-promotions-wome... Why are women unlikely to win promotion race at China’s Communist Party congress? Female cadres tend to rise through gender pathways in areas such as education and civil affairs, and in mass organisations But they’re rarely assigned to more high-profile portfolios such as economics, finance, industry and technology Mimi Lau Published: 11:00pm, 2 Oct, 2022 https://www.scmp.com/news/china/politics/article/3194570/why-are-women-unlikely-win-promotion-race-chinas-communist https://www.scmp.com/news/china/politics/article/3194570/why...
Georgelemental 4y ago
China has a lot of figureheads and rubber stamp officials. For example, their >1K legislature is a rubber stamp no real de facto power. So the female representation in de jure leadership might not match the female representation in actual leadership.
- medo-bear 4y ago
  im not talking about merits of chinese political system. but the thesis that communist-party-ruled societies are more favoured toward men than it is the case in most western governments is false. also according to statistics rwanda and cuba are world leaders in terms of % women holding office
  - signatoremo 4y ago
    Huh? This is just false. What is the basis for your opinion? There is no woman in the 24-member Politburo, the highest body of Chinese leadership. None. It had a single woman in the last cycle 2017-2022. The Standing committee, the top echelon with seven members has never had a woman as member. Of 205 members of the Central Committee, only 5% are women. https://amp.scmp.com/news/china/politics/article/3196848/absence-women-chinas-new-leadership-elite-step-backwards-political-diversity-say-observers https://amp.scmp.com/news/china/politics/article/3196848/abs...
    - pyuser583 4y ago
      Rawanda requires 50% of elected representatives to be female. In practice, it lets the ruling party keep power. Winning and election against them isn’t enough- you have to win with at least 50% female candidates.
    - medo-bear 4y ago
      http://archive.ipu.org/wmn-e/classif.htm http://archive.ipu.org/wmn-e/classif.htm

By % of total offices or just raw total? China has over 4X the population of the US. Not to even mention different countries have different #s of political offices. Just seems like a difficult comparison to make.

medo-bear 4y ago
by % of total offices > Just seems like a difficult comparison to make >> China, Russia, Iran and North Korea — are repressive societies with few women in positions of power but generalizations like this are pretty easy

Nomentatus 4y ago

Voters who are told how to vote, sure. But certainly not power: No promotions for women at China’s party congress? Mimi Lau Published: 2:08pm, 10 Oct, 2022 https://www.scmp.com/news/article/3195409/no-promotions-women-chinas-party-congress?module=live&pgtype=homepage https://www.scmp.com/news/article/3195409/no-promotions-wome... Why are women unlikely to win promotion race at China’s Communist Party congress? Female cadres tend to rise through gender pathways in areas such as education and civil affairs, and in mass organisations But they’re rarely assigned to more high-profile portfolios such as economics, finance, industry and technology Mimi Lau Published: 11:00pm, 2 Oct, 2022 https://www.scmp.com/news/china/politics/article/3194570/why-are-women-unlikely-win-promotion-race-chinas-communist https://www.scmp.com/news/china/politics/article/3194570/why...

Georgelemental 4y ago

China has a lot of figureheads and rubber stamp officials. For example, their >1K legislature is a rubber stamp no real de facto power. So the female representation in de jure leadership might not match the female representation in actual leadership.

medo-bear 4y ago
im not talking about merits of chinese political system. but the thesis that communist-party-ruled societies are more favoured toward men than it is the case in most western governments is false. also according to statistics rwanda and cuba are world leaders in terms of % women holding office
- signatoremo 4y ago
  Huh? This is just false. What is the basis for your opinion? There is no woman in the 24-member Politburo, the highest body of Chinese leadership. None. It had a single woman in the last cycle 2017-2022. The Standing committee, the top echelon with seven members has never had a woman as member. Of 205 members of the Central Committee, only 5% are women. https://amp.scmp.com/news/china/politics/article/3196848/absence-women-chinas-new-leadership-elite-step-backwards-political-diversity-say-observers https://amp.scmp.com/news/china/politics/article/3196848/abs...
  - pyuser583 4y ago
    Rawanda requires 50% of elected representatives to be female. In practice, it lets the ruling party keep power. Winning and election against them isn’t enough- you have to win with at least 50% female candidates.
  - medo-bear 4y ago
    http://archive.ipu.org/wmn-e/classif.htm http://archive.ipu.org/wmn-e/classif.htm