In China, Ruled by Men, Women Quietly Find a Powerful Voice (www.nytimes.com)

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First off, terrible headline. The "ruled by men" is totally unnecessary and biased.

Second, there are certainly much worse events going on in the world right now. This is hardly the most important.

It's an interesting article though about how some women feel in China about government policies and how they're meeting to discuss feminism and women empowerment. It's disappointing to see that the Chinese government has adopted a similar stance to US Republicans.

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[-] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 13 points 5 months ago

First off, terrible headline. The “ruled by men” is totally unnecessary and biased.

From your article:

China’s leader, Xi Jinping, has diminished the role of women at work and in public office. There are no female members of Mr. Xi’s inner circle or the Politburo, the executive policymaking body.

Sounds accurate to me.

Furthermore-

According to China’s National Bureau of Statistics data from 2022, China’s population comprises approximately 689.69 million females and 722.06 million males. Although women represent roughly 48.9 percent of the population, they occupy less than 8 percent of senior leadership positions.

https://www.uscc.gov/research/women-chinas-leadership

Does it need to be zero percent for you to consider 'ruled by men' to be unbiased?

[-] assassin_aragorn@lemmy.world 5 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

No I agree with you, it is an accurate take, it just feels unnecessary in a headline and a bit biased.

That said, it was probably unnecessary for me to mention too. I tried too hard to preempt criticism in my description. I'll just delete that and let the article stand for itself. Ironically, I'm doing more editorializing by saying all that.

Edit: As for the actual subject matter of the article, Jesus < 8% representation is low for ~49% of the population. It's unacceptable.

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