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China Says More Women Professionals Working at State-Run Firms
2005-08-25 07:34:02
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While the percentage of women working in China is about the same as a decade ago, the percentage of women professionals and technicians at state-owned companies has risen, the Chinese government said Tuesday. The number of women workers in both urban and rural areas reached 337 million nationwide by the end of 2004, 44.8 percent of those employed, the government said in its second report on women in the country.
The percentage of women workers in the report titled "Gender Equality and Women's Development in China" is roughly the same as in the first report in 1994, when was about 44 percent.
But by the end of 2004, women accounted for 43.6 percent of the professionals and technicians in state-owned enterprises and institutions nationwide, up 6.3 percentage points since 1995, the government said.
Among them, the percentage at senior levels rose to 30.5 percent from 20.1 percent and at the intermediate level increased to 42.0 percent from 33.4 percent, according to the government.
Women owners of small and medium-sized enterprises now account for about 20 percent of entrepreneurs in the country, the government said, adding that of the businesswomen, 60 percent set up shop in the past decade.
On the political front, the ratio of women delegates at the National People's Congress, China's legislative body, was 20.2 percent, while the ratio of women members in the Chinese Communist Party was 18.6 percent, up 3 percentage points from 1995, according to the government.
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