Female employees play key roles

11/19/2002
China Daily

Women comprise about 38.8 per cent of China's urban employees and 65.6 per cent of rural labourers.

Of all urban women, 85 per cent work.

The illiteracy rate among young women are 4.9 per cent.

Of all students in college, 42 per cent were women in 2001.

The mortality rate for pregnant women has decreased from 76.5 per 100,000 in 1992 to 53 per 100,000 in 2000.

The average expected life-span for women is 73.33 years old.

All 31 provinces and autonomous regions of the Chinese mainland have women in senior official positions.

There are 7,300-odd non-governmental women's organizations active around the country.

Over 3,000 legal support centres for women have been established across the country.