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This year’s March 8 U.N. International Women’s Day slogan “Invest in Women: Accelerate Progress” draws attention to the $360 billion annual deficit in gender-equality measures by 2030. Ac...

https://chinadigitaltimes.net/2024/03/street-slogans-reading-lists-and-wechat-moments-march-8-2024-international-womens-day-in-china/

China’s population decline looks set to continue despite the possibility of a traditional Dragon-Year “baby bump” and signs of a post-pandemic uptick in marriage rates after nine successive...

https://chinadigitaltimes.net/2024/02/cost-of-raising-children-in-china-is-worlds-second-highest/

These are CDT editors’ selections of their favorite posts from CDT and elsewhere around the web over the course of 2023: Sophie Beach CDT Pick: Translation: The Women of “Salt Town,” by Cin...

https://chinadigitaltimes.net/2024/01/cdt-editors-picks-the-best-of-2023/

China’s demographic changes have made headlines again this week, as the government released statistics showing that the country’s population has declined for a second year in a row. Pronatali...

https://chinadigitaltimes.net/2024/01/government-statistics-show-another-year-of-chinas-population-decline/

To round out 2023, CDT Chinese compiled a series of year-end articles on a number of special topics, including sensitive words (part one and part two), censored articles, “rollover scenes,” a...

https://chinadigitaltimes.net/2024/01/cdt-chinese-editors-people-of-the-year-2023-comedians/

At the close of 2023, CDT Chinese has compiled a series of year-end articles on a number of special topics, including sensitive words (part one and part two), censored articles, “rollover scene...

https://chinadigitaltimes.net/2024/01/cdt-chinese-editors-choices-for-the-most-notable-reports-of-2023/

In 2014, Leta Hong Fincher published her first book, Leftover Women: The Resurgence of Gender Inequality in China, which used the lens of home ownership and marital property rights to examine wom...

https://chinadigitaltimes.net/2023/12/interview-leta-hong-fincher-on-advances-and-setbacks-in-womens-rights-over-the-past-decade/

The censorship of a WeChat article about gender- and age-based employment discrimination against China’s post-1990s generation of women is but the latest indicator of the Party-state’s crackd...

https://chinadigitaltimes.net/2023/10/age-discrimination-hits-chinas-post-1990s-generation-of-women/

This week, the U.N. Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women (CEDAW) released its findings on eight countries, including China. The findings assess each country’s progress i...

https://chinadigitaltimes.net/2023/05/u-n-committee-calls-out-chinese-states-discrimination-against-women/

The shuttering of the Beijing LGBT Center marks the latest setback for China’s queer community. In a terse statement published to WeChat, the Center offered no explanation for its sudden closur...

https://chinadigitaltimes.net/2023/05/landmark-lgbtq-center-closes-amidst-state-push-for-straight-marriage/

This year, the United Nations’ theme for March 8 International Women’s Day was “DigitALL: Innovation and technology for gender equality.” In China, people marked the holiday with a variet...

https://chinadigitaltimes.net/2023/03/translation-the-women-of-salt-town/

This year’s United Nations theme for March 8 International Women’s Day (IWD) is “DigitALL: Innovation and technology for gender equality,” highlighting gender gaps in STEM education and c...

https://chinadigitaltimes.net/2023/03/international-womens-day-an-inspirational-pop-up-store-a-feminist-taobao-shop-and-countering-online-harassment/

March 8 is International Women’s Day (IWD), a global holiday focusing on gender equality, the rights of working women, reproductive rights, and the reduction of violence against women, among ot...

https://chinadigitaltimes.net/2023/03/essays-on-the-true-meaning-of-march-8-international-womens-day/

Peking University bestowed an honorary professorship on the President of Iran, Ebrahim Raisi, during his state visit to Beijing this week. The prevailing reaction on Weibo was outrage, until cens...

https://chinadigitaltimes.net/2023/02/honorary-professorship-for-irans-president-criticized-as-an-embarrassment-to-peking-university/

Two months after the spontaneous nationwide protests that broke out in response to a deadly fire in Urumqi and draconian pandemic controls, an unknown number of peaceful protesters remain in dete...

https://chinadigitaltimes.net/2023/01/increasing-calls-to-release-detained-a4-protesters/