In bars tucked away in alleys and at salons and bookstores around Shanghai, women are debating their place in a country where men make the laws.
Others gathered to watch films made by women about women.
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.
Persons:
China’s, Xi Jinping
Organizations:
Communist Party
Locations:
Shanghai