The Communist Party’s solution to the country’s demographic crisis and a slowing economy is to push women back into traditional roles. By Alexandra Stevenson At China’s top political ...

HONG KONG, Oct 18 (Reuters) - As Xi Jinping consolidates power at China's 20th Communist Party Congress this week, Chinese women are not holding their breath for progress in gender equality.

(Photo: Xinhua) A woman learns the skill of making flowery headwear with her daughter during an event celebrating the International Women's Day in a kindergarten in Huangshan City, east China's ...

From the 1950s through to the early 1970s, Mao Zedong mostly encouraged women to have babies to make the country strong. But as China’s population exploded, Deng Xiaoping abruptly reversed ...

By Alexandra Stevenson and Zixu Wang Reporting from Hong Kong China’s ruling Communist Party is facing a national emergency. To fix it, the party wants more women to have more babies.

China is ramping up efforts to counter its plummeting birth rate, with measures ranging from cash incentives to controversial local campaigns urging women to have children. Last year marked the ...

After production statistics, about the most carefully concealed figures in Red China belong to the bosses’ wives. Premier Chou En-lai’s plump partner is often in the spotlight because she ...

With a tied score and two minutes left to play after a stunning second-half comeback, China’s women’s soccer team finally scored the goal that had eluded them for 16 years. That winning goal ...

Four decades on, China’s leaders are asking women to have three children again, which doesn’t sit well for Yu, an only child. “For me to give birth to three children, my future husband must ...

Chinese women are having fewer babies. China's population is declining, and the government wants to turn it around—but will it work? Nurses at a postnatal center in Hangzhou tend to babies while ...