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CHINA COUNTRY GENDER REVIEW WORLD BANK Prepared by Elaine Zuckerman with Alf Blikberg and Menglin Cao for the East Asia and Pacific Region and the Gender Methods Thematic Group Poverty Reduction and Economic Management Network 2000 1 CHINA COUNTRY GENDER REVIEW Country Gender Reviews (CGRs) The Bank seeks to integrate gender analysis into World Bank Economic and Sector Work (ESW), Country Assistance Strategies (CASs) and projects (World Bank 1999a) because evidence has mounted that countries that discriminate on the basis of gender tend to have greater poverty, slower economic growth, weaker governance and a lower quality of life. Conversely, gender equality is conducive to poverty reduction and economic growth (World Bank 2000a). Therefore, the Bank is preparing Country Gender Reviews which identify and analyze priority gender issues constraining development. They will be available for ESW, CAS and project task managers and staff who often lack resources to research gender concerns (Zuckerman 2000). Introduction ince 1949, the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) has sought to change the unequal relationship between men and women and to provide legal protection for women. In many ways, women’s S status has improved over the last 50 years. Some of the most pernicious manifestations of gender inequality such as binding women’s feet have been eradicated. Women have been provided access to education and the political process, long denied them. But deeply entrenched patriarchal customs, such as the preference for a boy-child and inferior treatment of girls in rur