{"id":2747,"date":"2016-03-10T13:12:54","date_gmt":"2016-03-10T18:12:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/socanth\/?p=2747"},"modified":"2025-06-10T09:15:41","modified_gmt":"2025-06-10T13:15:41","slug":"xiaobei-chen-womens-status-china","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/socanth\/2016\/xiaobei-chen-womens-status-china\/","title":{"rendered":"Xiaobei Chen, Women Can Hold Up Half the Sky"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<section class=\"w-screen px-6 cu-section cu-section--white ml-offset-center md:px-8 lg:px-14\">\n    <div class=\"space-y-6 cu-max-w-child-5xl  md:space-y-10 cu-prose-first-last\">\n\n            <div class=\"cu-textmedia flex flex-col lg:flex-row mx-auto gap-6 md:gap-10 my-6 md:my-12 first:mt-0 max-w-5xl\">\n        <div class=\"justify-start cu-textmedia-content cu-prose-first-last\" style=\"flex: 0 0 100%;\">\n            <header class=\"font-light prose-xl cu-pageheader md:prose-2xl cu-component-updated cu-prose-first-last\">\n                                    <h1 class=\"cu-prose-first-last font-semibold !mt-2 mb-4 md:mb-6 relative after:absolute after:h-px after:bottom-0 after:bg-cu-red after:left-px text-3xl md:text-4xl lg:text-5xl lg:leading-[3.5rem] pb-5 after:w-10 text-cu-black-700 not-prose\">\n                        Xiaobei Chen, Women Can Hold Up Half the Sky\n                    <\/h1>\n                \n                                \n                            <\/header>\n\n                    <\/div>\n\n            <\/div>\n\n    <\/div>\n<\/section>\n\n<p>Xiaobei Chen spoke at the Celebrating International Women\u2019s Day 2016 event organized by the Ottawa Chinese Community Service Centre on March 8, 2016. She reflected on the socialist legacy in improving women\u2019s status in China and regression since the post-1978 market economy reform. She drew parallels between gender disparity in China and Canada, arguing that neoliberal economic doctrines that insist on downsizing the public sector and leaving the market to its own devices have produced persisting and sometimes increasing inequality between women and men around the globe.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Xiaobei Chen spoke at the Celebrating International Women\u2019s Day 2016 event organized by the Ottawa Chinese Community Service Centre on March 8, 2016. She reflected on the socialist legacy in improving women\u2019s status in China and regression since the post-1978 market economy reform. She drew parallels between gender disparity in China and Canada, arguing that [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[21],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2747","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fass-news"],"acf":{"cu_post_thumbnail":false},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/socanth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2747","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/socanth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/socanth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/socanth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/socanth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2747"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/socanth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2747\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21097,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/socanth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2747\/revisions\/21097"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/socanth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2747"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/socanth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2747"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/socanth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2747"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}