Chinese women: linking PP and TH

"China's female professionals are fighting the world's lowest retirement age." The item in the FT caught my attention because it links my past and my present: the struggle for greater recognition for women's competences, across the full life course (Paula Principle, book done); and the changing definitions of where people stand in that life course (Triple Helix, book still very much to be done). I couldn't find trends on Chinese women's educational achievement in the OECD's comparative statistics. Gathering these will be a huge task. But I'd be willing to bet that in the metropolitan regions at least young Chinese women over outdoing their male contemporaries. However older women will…
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