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Women fail to crack China's glass ceiling as party picks new leaders
Published Wed, Oct 25, 2017 · 09:50 PM
Beijing
EVERY time China's ruling Communist Party convenes a major gathering, such as the congress that just ended in Beijing, the list of delegates is hand-crafted in part to burnish the party's image as "representative of the masses" - including giving some prominence to those in more menial jobs and ethnic minorities.
Yet one group is chronically under-represented among the political elite: women.
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