This is one of the few hopeful things I've read recently.
In China, Ruled by Men, Women Quietly Find a Powerful Voice
Women in Shanghai gather in bars, salons and bookstores to reclaim their identities as the country’s leader calls for China to adopt a “childbearing culture.”
China’s leader, Xi Jinping, has diminished the role of women at work and in public office. There are no female members of Mr. Xi’s inner circle or the Politburo, the executive policymaking body. He has invoked more traditional roles for women, as caretakers and mothers, in planning a new “childbearing culture” to address a shrinking population.But groups of women around China are quietly reclaiming their own identities.
On International Women’s Day in March, Her held an event it called Marry Me, in which women took vows to themselves.
https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/20...owerful-voice/