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20. Chinese Women in Tech

Finding More Success Than Their American Counterparts
Griffin Kao1 , Jessica Hong2, Michael Perusse3 and Weizhen Sheng4
(1)
Wynnewood, PA, USA
(2)
Edina, MN, USA
(3)
Cambridge, MA, USA
(4)
Markham, ON, Canada
 

“Women hold up half the sky,” Mao Zedong famously declared in 1968, a diamond in the rough and violent legacy he left behind. Two decades prior to Mao’s declaration, the Communist Party had assumed power in China and began the process of reshaping the country’s ideological consensus on economic production and cultural development. Complete with a new name (the People’s Republic ...

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