Political Rights and Status for chinese women
1 min readWomen today represent a large percentage of the total workforce in China.They are employed at all levels of government as well as in economics，culture，education，and science.Yet a pyramid structure exists：the higher up the pyramid，the fewer women.Because women’s political rights and status were carefully protected and guaranteed in the 1950s，a number of prominent women leaders emerged during the revolutionary years.
Soong Ching Ling or Mme.Sun Yatsen once served as President of the People’s Republic；Deng Yingchao or Mme.Zhou Enlai was Chairwoman of the People’s Political Consultative Conference，and Mme.Chen Mu-hua was Vice Premier.Today there are no women at the top level of national leadership.The President of the People’s Republic，the Chairman of the People’s Congress，the Chairman of the People’s Political Consultative Conference as well as the Premier of the State Council are men，No women serve in the Political Bureau of the Chinese Communist Party，a regression from the past years and an indication that women’s voices are not being heard at these upper levels of government.The ratio of men to women state councilors is 8：1；the ratio of deputy chairs of the People’s Congress is 10：1；the ratio of deputy chairs of the People’s Political Consultative Conference is 25：1，and women represent only 7%of all ministers.
