China is removing its tax exemption on contraceptives in an effort to boost birth rates. But some are concerned that it ...

Guest Contributors Tahina Montoya is a defense and policy researcher at RAND, and Kelly Atkinson is a political scientist at RAND.

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 ...

Anger after village doctor asks for period dates, phone numbers; online critics slam move, ask if next step is ‘forced ...

China’s plummeting birth rate has made its leadership anxious, with the government now shifting from its stringent one-child ...

Less than two months after Xie Yumei got married in 2021, her husband hit her for the first time. Over the next two years, ...

On gender roles. inequality and sex in China in the 1970s. Text from Revolt Against Plenty where it formed part of the "China 4" page. Chinese women have long been subjugated to the authority of men ...

At China’s 2025 Two Sessions, women’s rights received minimal attention despite the government announcing a global summit on gender equality later in the year. While female representation in the ...

In 1995, the Fourth World Conference on Women of the United Nations was successfully held in Beijing. The Beijing Declaration and Platform for Action, adopted at the conference, has since become a ...

The number of new marriages recorded in China fell to a record low last year, despite sweeping government efforts to encourage young people to tie the knot and have babies to halt demographic decline ...

In a warning issued on Sunday, the Chinese Embassy in Bangladesh urged its citizens to steer clear of illegal cross-border marriages and deceptive online matchmaking schemes. The statement, widely ...