Beijing (AP) - A clear history shows that it is earth orbit A Chinese woman more easily, not the land of China's political highest step on A point.
In June, 33 of the air force major milestone, marks an important feminists, became the first person in space travel. Along with the November 8 kick off ten years a leadership transition, now many people are watching the, if can win one ambitious Chinese female, state councilor LiuYanDong, China power of 9 points of vertex.
Mr. Liu is a 67 - year - old smiling face and chemical engineering degree, pearl and red lipstick and a hobby. Her portfolio including education, sports and cultural affairs. Experts say, she is connection and the official media described her as a diligent civil servants, people-oriented. In may, she wear chamfer qualitative in hospital and the teacher who lost her legs, two students push from the oncoming bus stroked his forehead.
"You are so young, so beautiful," state media quoted liu told the teacher that ZhangLiLi. "From now on, you can call my sister."
Leadership transition a decade, China only happens once. This year, liu is the only women and the external opportunity landed at the top of the position, if she doesn't, she made history. But, soared to space looks be like simple, compared to China's political jab to the boy's club.
"There is a Chinese female astronaut, this is easier, because this is for China, and achieve not hurriedly political power, said:" von ten thousand yuan, the headquarters is located in Beijing women's rights advocates.
In order to improve the women in the political process participation is a quota, but they were not strictly enforced.
The communist party of China was founded in 1949, no woman had served as the standing committee of CCCPC political bureau, the top of the leadership group's main policy setting. Only two women at the provincial party committee secretary, a powerful, be regarded as national leadership position stepping stone.
The past the central political bureau former vice premier wu yi, be called "iron lady" for her difficult negotiation skills and ranking "Forbes" in 2007 in the second most powerful women in the world, there is no propulsion, the group from the National People's Congress standing committee about 25 member recruitment.
Willy, the Chinese university of Hong Kong historians Lin said, climb to power supply usually starts with local leadership positions, have been successfully using supervision and more and more large selection of work, the ideal situation, operation of a province or a big city.
These are people over China from trees, high wall as well as the leadership in the centre of Beijing compounds.
But to get these position very touch a woman, sometimes maddening reason.
"To become a big city mayor or a province governor, you must want a boy's sort, you drink a lot, maybe play a woman, also can reasonably corruption," Lin said. "Any lack of corruption in China women, but this is a boy's phenomenon, I think, some promising female cadres.
Around China women's rights abundant, Beijing's claims, has held training workshops. She said, aspiring female politicians to she complained about "wine culture" in China's political, but a lot of people said sexual politics also think them back.
Powerful China men are very common, a mistress, it can make women difficult to please, or even cooperation and their male boss don't invite doubt.
A mechanism of a female vice director tell von, if she went to her male boss's office to discuss work, he will usually stood in the doorway talk to her. If they had to live in his office, he insisted on open the door.
"This is to prevent speculation," says feng. "If you have to in daily work, carefully imagine how difficult it is. It will be to promote women, people will talk, they will ask, is how close relationship."
Although the Chinese communist party made great efforts to improve women's life, increase their get education, health care and employment opportunity man once, they did not make significant improvement of women's political participation.
Since the 1970 s, China's parliament in the number of women in fact has been declining, and less than quarter communist party members are women. In addition, women are generally known as "women's work, such as family planning public relations position to shunt.
In 2009, female cadres accounted for only 11% of the provincial leadership positions, in local and department level of 13.7%, and 16.6% at or above the county level in the office. This is a little better, more than 2000 years of digital respectively for 8%, 10.8% and 15.1%.
In the beginning of the ruling communist party, MAO zedong, Lin biao, zhou enlai's wife a given position in the political bureau, but their term of no other paving the way women.
MAO zedong's wife Chiang ching, 1976 years after the death of MAO zedong, in her counter-revolutionary crimes was sentenced to death, leading to a series of big cleaning.
Although some people see jiang as a reminder story, the ruthless power consumption women, she claims she is just obedience.
"I was chairman MAO's a dog. He asked me who I bite bite," jiang said in court.
Former communist history provides aspiring female politicians also lack of inspiration. Yearbook are filled with calculation concubines help to overthrow the emperor distracted them with pleasure in the body, a kind of argument, the university of Hong Kong history department professor zhou xun said did not disappear.
"Historically, women often considered the trouble links, to the collapse of the empire," said zhou.
As a leader resist reform and left China vulnerable to Japan and western powers rule in China, who died in 1908, the empress dowager cixi, remember the last woman.
Today, the communist party's grassroots campaign don't tolerate the phenomenon of the feminist movement, can let the women took to the streets to demand equal pay for equal work and equal job or more women to participate in political growth space is running out.
One of the few independent network BBS, committed to the women's problems, Feminst. Cn, again by authorities have closed.
Liu is regarded as a long shot standing committee, but there are also some other women competitive position, including the central political bureau corruption supervision and horse 馼, fujian provincial party committee secretary since 1949 SunChunLan - the second woman in charge of a province secretary of the party committee.
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