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Gender Gap Widens in Chinese Cities

Categories: East Asia, China, Development, Women & Gender

China Digital Times highlighted [1] some discussion on gender gap in China. Even though the overall percentage of working women is not very low, as a result of urbanization, employment rate for working-age women in urban areas fell to a new low of 60.8 percent in 2010, down from 77.4 percent 20 years earlier.