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    Feminist Reflections on China's Criminal Law

    2004
    From a feminist perspective China's Criminal Law on the one hand manifests respect for women in that that it includes a whole battery of punishments for crimes against women; on the other hand, it manifests sexism in the legislators' sub-consciousness in that only women (and children) are considered at risk of being bought, sold, or raped, while such crimes against men are excluded.
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    Survey and Analysis on Gender Awareness among High-Level Decision Makers

    2004
    In 2004, the gender equality advocacy working group of the All-China Women's Federation conducted a survey of gender awareness of 242 ministerial and departmental-level decision makers. The survey found that these high-level decision makers have largely heard of terms such as ?gender? and ?gender mainstreaming? but do not necessarily understand their meanings.
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    Class of Dialogues on Vagina Monologue: A Sum-up on the Pedagogy of Women and Gender Studies

    2004
    In the evening of 20 December 2002 teachers from more than 20 universities in China came to the classroom to watch graduate students' perform a multimedia presentation of dialogues from 'The Vagina Monologue'. The response to this taboo shaking class was both applause and censure. The first section of this article introduces the class design, teaching process, and reflections from the teachers.
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    Sex Lives in the Aids Era

    2004
    This book proposes that to prevent AIDS, instead of always just talking about risk, safer more enjoyable sex lives should be promoted. This book argues that the sex workers are not transmitters of HIV/AIDS but are the first line of victims. The real infectors are the men who go whoring and have other sexual partners. Among these the most dangerous infectors are the men who do not use condoms.
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    76.8% of the Sky: Gender, Poverty and Development in Hong Kong

    2005
    76.8% is the proportion of employed women in Hong Kong whose income was under the poverty line (5000 HKD) in 2003. In spite of the feminization of poverty, the government ignores gender equality in it's poverty alleviation strategy. The only issues tackled which address women's interests are children's poverty within the family, and trans-generational poverty.
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    Gender Analysis Based on a Theoretical Hypothesis on Methods for Mainstreaming Urban Poverty Measurements

    2004
    Mainstream urban poverty measurements make a basic theoretical assumption: 'equal distribution of poverty in the family', or 'equal grading of the consumption of basic living resources in the family'.
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    Social Differentiation and Gender Stratification in the Present Phase of China

    Zhejiang University, 2004
    During the current social transition those with most power are men. Men make up about three-quarters of all those managing, state, society and private enterprises. In the middle levels of society, women and men make up fairly equal proportions of professional and technical people, but men outnumber women in higher level posts, and women predominate at the lower end.
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    Women's Federation's Unempowered Participation in International Development Projects

    2004
    Women's participation is a requirement, in name, for the acquisition and implementation of large-scale international development projects. These projects, generally in practice, are implemented by the relevant departments of specific sectors of government.
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    Surveys and Suggestions on the Protection of Mobile Women's Family Planning/ Reproductive Health Rights and Interests

    2004
    The current management and services of family planning/reproductive health has limited coverage. Many mobile unmarried adults do not have access to services, neither do a significant proportion of married women of childbearing age. This study is based on focus group and personal interviews in selected counties and districts in Anhui, Shanghai, Beijing, Hubei, and Henan.
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    A Study of Gender Inequality in Rural Women's Development and their Free Time

    2004
    The relation between free time and gender inequality has been ignored by both studies of free time and by women's studies.

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