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The Bitter-Sweet Taste Of Success

China's rise is empowering its legions of working women. But they're finding the rewards aren't so sweet.

NEWSWEEK
Updated: 11:16  a.m. ET Dec 22, 2007
Dec. 31, 2007 - Jan. 7, 2008 issue

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  • Posted By: tangjinde @ 12/29/2007 12:29:21 AM

    I need a good wife not a good woman

  • Posted By: FreerkBrandsma @ 12/26/2007 2:56:01 PM

    What`s wrong with a woman wanting to put family and man first? Isn??t it time that we should question the wonderfull fruits gender issues has brought western countries? Meaning: unstable relationships based on ongoing arguments, chiltheren of divorced parents growing up among people who would never give them the same love and care as their own fathers and mothers, etc..

  • Posted By: kenpothestar @ 12/26/2007 6:00:36 AM

    gender inequality exists everywhere and som countries accept it while others try to deny it.

  • Posted By: ksiong.chew @ 12/23/2007 9:41:18 PM

    Given the gender imbalance in China - more men than women, I am surprised to learn that so many Chinese women are having hard time to get a spouse.

  • Posted By: yin-yang @ 12/23/2007 4:32:14 AM

    I am very curious about women in USA. What are they like?
    I know USA was famous for racial discrimination,
    but is/was gender equality a problem at all in USA?

  • Posted By: jdv2008 @ 12/22/2007 1:04:40 PM

    Saying that China has enjoyed formal gender equality for over 50 years is akin to saying China has enjoyed formal communism for over 50 years. It's as much of a myth as the " market economy". What the authors readers should be asking is "why can't we vote?".

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