Identifing Region & Identifing Gender Inequality in China

A. In China today there as been some changes in women rights such as granting them the right to divorce and to work on an equal footing with men, and offering greater educational opportunities than those found in most other developing countries. That is not the case for poor women in China. The poor women in China put themselves in desperate situations for money for example  "Offering sex for money have become ubiquitous, and some estimates put the number of prostitutes in China at 4 million" (Hewtt). Women in China get empolyment  about 330 million women have a job. There is a low percentage of women working in the article "Working women in China second class workers [Note 1]" it states that   "46.7 percent of the total working population of women in the country" Today men are still getting paid more than women. In china they have The One Child Policy is when each family in China can only have one child. If the parents want to have more than one child Rosenberg states that  they are "fined, pressures to abort a pregnancy, and even forced sterilization accompanied second or subsequent pregnancies" women do not have the right to have as many child as they like.

B. Their is gender inequality when it comes to women in China selling their bodies. China mostly has poor women as prostitutes instead of men, they do not have a respectable job for women if they are poor. In China more men are working than women. Women should work, but in many state enterprises they did cleaning or manual labor." These practices continue today and are reflected in China's political sector: despite a few success stories, women make up around 20 percent of the Communist Party's 70 million members and hold only 13 of 204 seats on the Central Committee, the party's top body"(Hewitt 2). Women still get the common jobs like cleaning which is part of the gender inequality. Having the One Child Policy is another form of gender inequality because in China they believe that it is better to have one child because it keeps China from getting over poplated. Rosenberg states that"the result of such Draconian family planning has resulted in the disparate ratio of 114 males for every 100 females among babies from birth through children four years of age. Normally, 105 males are naturally born for every 100 females (1). Thus causing gender in inequality in China.

Work cited

Hewitt, Duncan. "They're Not Going to Take It." The Daily Beast. Newsweek/Daily Beast, 31 July 2009. Web. 28 Feb. 2012. http://www.thedailybeast.com/newsweek/2009/07/31/they-re-not-going-to-take-it.html.

Rosenberg, Matt. "China's One Child Policy." About.com Geography. 26 Jan. 2012. Web. 28 Feb. 2012. <http://geography.about.com/od/populationgeography/a/onechild.htm>.

"Working Women in China – Second Class Workers [Note 1] | CLB." Working Women in China – Second Class Workers [Note 1]. Web. 28 Feb. 2012. <http://www.clb.org.hk/en/node/3442>.