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Sun Chunlan (Chinese: 孙春兰; born 24 May 1950) is a retired Chinese politician. She served as the second-ranked Vice Premier of China and the highest-ranking incumbent female government official until March 2023.
May 23, 2022 · Sun Chunlan. Mao Zedong might have declared that “women hold up half the sky,” but in truth the People’s Republic is ruled by an entrenched patriarchy. Only eight women have risen to China ...
Oct 19, 2022 · Mao’s phrase that “women hold up half the sky” rings hollow as China’s most powerful female politician prepares for retirement with few others in line. Sun Chunlan at the National People ...
Center of Chinese and Greek Ancient Civilizations inaugurated in Athens. 2023/02/22.
- ‘Women Hold Up Half The Sky’, But Men Rule
- A Very Patriarchal Party
- A Demographic Crisis, But Women Don't Have A Say
Sun’s “Iron Lady” moniker has been reinforced over the past two years, since President Xi Jinping appointed her as the country’s top official overseeing China’s Covid-19 pandemicresponse. She has been the enforcer of Xi’s "zero-Covid" policy – proof, if proof were needed, that the country’s only female vice premier enjoys the president’s complete c...
But the reality is quite different for a country with around 703 million women, constituting 48.7 percent of the total population. Since 1949, there have been only six women in the CCP Politburo. Three of them were the wives of the founders of Communist China. Among the more than 300 members of the Central Committee – who elect Politburo members an...
This lack of women in leadership has important economic and social consequences, noted Tan. "One of the root causes of the current demographic crisis in China is the underrepresentation of women in important positions," she explained. "The problems of almost half the population are not, or barely, represented in the CCP." And so, the incentive to h...
Ms Sun Chunlan is the only female vice-premier in China's entrenched patriarchy, the sole woman on its powerful 25-member Politburo and, more recently, the top...
Oct 25, 2017 · She is Sun Chunlan, 67, head of the party’s United Front Work Department, the organ that is in charge of spreading party influence abroad and at home—for example by undermining...
