VOA Joyce Huang April 12, 2016 An emotional advertisement about “leftover women” in China, which has gone viral, has uncovered not only the society’s deep-rooted discrimination against single women, but also the Chinese government’s inaction in tackling gender inequity issues, analysts say. The four-minute-long document-style video, part…
DetailsBy SBS reporter Katrina Yu A Beijing women’s legal aid law firm has submitted a formal report pressing the Chinese government for more clarification on the country’s recently enacted domestic violence law. The new law was celebrated by women’s rights activists around the country, but many are critical of certain gaps and a lack of…
DetailsNorCal HK Club Published Date: Jan 10, 2016 1) Both governments should also ensure Chinese law enforcement agents stop operating in Hong Kong. These five book sellers are the shareholders/co-owners of Mighty Current Media, known for publishing books critical of Chinese senior officials. Reports from Hong Kong media has rumored some of them had been snatched…
DetailsBy Nian Hu Financial dependency and gender roles in marriage By definition, a housewife is a woman whose main occupation is running her family’s household and who does not work outside the home. She is, for the most part, financially dependent on her husband, the breadwinner of the family. But the women described…
DetailsBy Nian Hu Loosening standards for men while tightening standards for women What makes a man “hot”?”? If we take a look at the list of the sexiest men alive—a list that includes actors Channing Tatum, Ryan Reynolds, and Chris Hemsworth—we notice that they all have a similar body type, with glistening washboard abs…
DetailsBy Nian Hu, a student at Harvard The stigmatization of menstruation Call it the crimson wave, Aunt Flo, or cousin red—call it anything but what it actually is. Menstruation, the process by which the body sheds the lining of the uterus through the vagina, is all too familiar to any woman of childbearing age.…
DetailsBy Nian Hu (Nian Hu ’18, Student of Harward, a Crimson editorial executive) Femme Fatale Rape (noun)–”unlawful sexual intercourse or any other sexual penetration of the vagina, anus, or mouth of another person, with or without force, by a sex organ, other body part, or foreign object, without the consent of the victim.” …
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