China’s Communist Party at 100: Where are the women? Erin Hale One hundred years after the secretive founding of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) on board a Shanghai boat, China is a radically different world from the one the party wanted to overturn in 1921.
People are richer, have fewer children and more job opportunities than their ancestors could probably ever have imagined.
But amid the upheaval, one thing remains the same.
Men continue to dominate political power.
No women were present that day in Shanghai and women’s rights were not specifically mentioned, even though they were very much in the air as part of China’s “New Culture Movement” and the May 4 protests of 1919 that would prove an inspiration to the CCP’s leaders.