Recent History of Gender Discrimination in ChinaPrevious to the 1970s, China was considered radical in its commitment to gender egalitarianism. However in the late 1970s, China took a new path to socio-economic development, which resulted in a larger gap between men and women, highlighting gender differences and gender roles. The Chinese state today embraces the idea that men and women are drastically different from each other and that women’s main role is having children and raising them, while a man’s main role is to work (Budgen).
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