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Wednesday, 10 February 2016

Where Are All the Women in China’s Anticorruption Campaign? (Rachel Brown, Elizabeth C. Economy, CFR)

A glance through ChinaFile’s recently released visualization of individuals investigated in China’s ongoing anticorruption campaign to “swat flies and hunt tigers” makes one thing clear: the only place where tigresses are rarer than in a Siberian reserve is in the ranks of Chinese officialdom. Among the 1,462 officials whose cases were announced by the Chinese government, only sixty-nine are women. Of those women, only three are considered “tigers,” those who have at least a deputy ministerial or deputy provincial-level rank; women make up just over 2 percent of the “tigers” brought down by corruption.

http://blogs.cfr.org/asia/2016/02/09/where-are-all-the-women-in-chinas-anticorruption-campaign/