Rights, Education and Health for Women Improved Since the Founding of New China, Rulers Claim

China has released a paper showing its groundbreaking changes towards gender equality since the founding of the People’s Republic of China (PRC) 70 years ago.

The paper, titled “Equality, Development and Sharing: Progress of Women’s Cause in 70 Years Since New China’s Founding” shows significant development and improvement in women’s social status.

The nation’s progress on women’s rights means laws were added, adjusted or eliminated as necessary to ensure improved equality in employment and in education, as well as giving women an equal right as men to vote and be elected. Where the illiteracy rate among girls over 15 years of age was 90% before the founding of the PRC, it is now slashed down to just 7.3% according to the most recent study in 2017.

Additionally, women have become a whole lot healthier over the past seven decades” their life expectance has grown by 42.7 years between 1949 and 2015, and the maternal rate has fallen by 79.4% between 1990 and 2018 – resulting in the nation’s early achievement of the United Nations Millennium Development Goals.