Xinhui Jiang, an associate professor in Nanjing University’s Department of Political Science, said a combination of factors, including institutional constraints and cultural implications, has created a dilemma for women working in the political system.
Civil servant women often found it more difficult to receive opportunities that could lay the foundation for promotion but also entail relocation, due to the gender division of labor within the family.
But Jiang said there is little optimism about the prospects for women in politics, as women constitute the majority of new civil servants after 2017.
“But I’m still a little worried about whether this pyramid will form a kind of representation for women: many women at the lower level, at the level of the bureaucracy, while at the top there are very few women.” and at the top,’ he said.
The lack of female representation in the political system has resulted in problems in the formulation of policies and in addressing public affairs.
“It’s a big question,” Shih said. “Not only at the central level, but also at the provincial, prefectural and county levels, very rarely you will find a leader No. 1 at the local level who is a woman, and that in a certain direction and from the plans of the skw. problems. Women are the most important.”
Brown also noted that while women in politics are also facing challenges in other countries, China seemed to be going backwards.
“That way the party’s identity is very conservative, very stuck, very poorly-dominated, very lacking in diversity, which makes for a very powerful but very limited system,” Brown said.
“There are many challenges facing China where we will need different perspectives, different aspects, different types of people. But at the moment, it seems that he just wants to choose one type of person and one type of approach.
This article was first published in SCMP.
