China’s Ruling Party One-Third Female 100 Years After Founding

Mao Zedong said “women hold up half the sky.” But they still make up less than one-third of the party he helped found a century ago.

Some 28.8% of the Communist Party’s more than 95 million members were female as of this month, the party’s Organization Department said Wednesday in a statement posted on a website of the official Xinhua News Agency. That compares with 23.3% a decade ago.