Women in China have to contend with discrimination in the labor market. Several Chinese trade unions have now urged companies to better protect their rights.
By Leonardo Pape
Our China Perspective column is written by authors from the People's Republic. Today's edition is about women's rights and how the activists' fighting spirit is unbroken despite fierce headwinds.
By Experts Table.Briefings
Chinese society continues to become more conservative; the Communist Party throws old progressive ways of thinking overboard and sends women back to the kitchen. This puts women under pressure, but will not succeed with young women, says Leta Hong Fincher, a journalist and author specializing in women's rights, in an interview by Christiane Kuehl.
By Christiane Kuehl
German foreign and development policy is to become feminist, according to the government's plans. This will also change climate policy. Feminism is supposed to bring more equal rights for all: Societies are to become fairer – and thus more resilient to global warming.
By Alexandra Endres
