WOMEN'S PARTICIPATION IN CHINESE ELITE POLITICS

• Main Authors: Sissokho, Oumie, 施元敏
• Other Authors: Chang, Wen Yang
• Format: Others
• Online Access: http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/42567898517506479604

碩士 === 國立政治大學 === 國際研究英語碩士學位學程 (IMPIS) === 102 === Women’s participation in politics is an important requirement for gender equality. China’s economic reform has brought massive improvements in the social and economic sectors of the country. However, the regime’s monopoly of power, political culture and economic reasons in combination with other socio-cultural factors has resulted to continuous domination of women in China’s political life. This study has employed a secondary research approach in combination with a reasonable data quantity covering 1977 to 2013 on the presence of women in selected top political institutions. The study finds out that women are under-represented across the political board but worst in top government (elite) and party institutions. This means that, at the state level, politics remains a domain for men and there exist a stern masculine monopoly over party institutions also. Where women are genuinely found, such as the parliament, their presence only serves as a source of meeting an important global or domestic requirement in the interest of the Chinese Communist Party than a true sense of gender equality or exercise of an equal right (between men and women) in determining the affairs of their society.