By Reuters Staff. Like most Asian nations, China has a traditional bias for sons. Many families abort female foetuses and abandon baby girls to ensure their one child is a son, so about boys are born for every girls, against a global average of to The agency said it would step up supervision on foetal sex determination, which is banned in China.
Help us continue to fight human rights abuses. Please give now to support our work. Human Rights Watch. Donate Now. Take Action. Join Us. Give Now. Click to expand Image. Such measures have delivered tangible gains. A survey issued by the National Bureau of Statistics revealed that in the number of women undergoing screenings for general diseases rose to China has made significant strides in improving standards of living and health outcomes.
Other health indicators, such as the maternal mortality rate, also reflect positive change. According to the World Bank , China has dramatically lowered its maternal mortality ratio from 97 deaths per , live births in to only 27 deaths in This ratio surpasses those found in other large developing economies like Brazil , and India , China has also taken strides to improve postnatal care.
A law introduced by the State Council in increased paid maternity leave to 14 weeks , and in some provinces, an entire year. I n , China further extended maternity leave by an additional one to three months depending on province. The length of maternity leave in China is now comparable to the paid leave offered by many wealthy European countries, and it is a significant improvement over the US, which has no federally mandated leave. While China has achieved a higher life expectancy and better health outcomes for women, it still suffers from an imbalanced sex ratio at birth.
The sex ratio at birth is even more pronounced in rural areas. The number of single men is expected to grow to 30 million in This imbalance has been associated with negative socio-economic consequences , including a declining labor force and an increase in human trafficking. Across the globe, women face significant educational disadvantages. Women often receive less schooling than men, which limits their economic prospects and has been linked with higher rates of early pregnancy.
China has made a concerted effort to boost access to education for its entire population. These measures have contributed to a rise in the literacy rate of women from While noteworthy, this still places China in the lower half of global rankings, well behind highly developed economies where literacy is over 99 percent.
The mean years of schooling for women in China grew from 4. The vast majority of young Chinese women These levels of enrollment are much higher than their respective global averages — Since , Chinese women have been more likely than men to continue onto tertiary and postgraduate education. According to the Ministry of Education, women constituted The WEF ranks China as number 1 in gender balance for tertiary education.
In , the female-to-male ratio at Peking University was 48 to 52, while the ratio at Tsinghua University was lower at 34 to In contrast, female students are more likely to study abroad than their male peers.
In , women accounted for 51 percent of Chinese students studying in the US and 63 percent of those in the UK. A report by the China Social Welfare Foundation found that while
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