China women's rights

As Beijing grapples with a coming demographic crisis, China’s state media are taking aim at feminism and abortion services.

Draft revisions to China’s women’s rights law are a step in the right direction, but are likely to have limited impact.

In the most recent example, a woman was fired by Alibaba after going public with an accusation of sexual assault.

Peng’s story is an example of a woman sharing her story and demanding justice. That is what has kept #MeToo growing strong since the beginning, despite heavy censorship.

Since the latest census results confirmed slowing marriage and birth rates, policy solutions have increasingly undermined women’s rights.

Close on the heels of the Kris Wu scandal, charges of sexual assault and harassment at Alibaba emerged.

A teenager accused Kris Wu of getting her drunk in order to have sex with her. The reaction shows just how far China’s #MeToo movement has come.

Loud encouragement for women to have more children, coupled with a rise in rhetoric equating femininity with weakness, could be a damaging combination for women’s rights in China.

“I just want to know in the national policy, as a single parent, as an unmarried woman, do I have the right to give birth?”

China’s Civil Code required firms to set up sexual harassment prevention and response policies. But on the ground, the impacts remain limited.

Zhou Xiaoxuan’s case highlights the growing willingness of Chinese women to speak up about sexual harassment despite official resistance and censorship.