Jan. 11 (Bloomberg) -- Women hold up half the sky, as Mao
Zedong once declared. Decades later, they don’t hold up much of
anything in the halls of Chinese power.
In 2012, Liu Yang proved the inverse of Mao’s point, at
least as far as China is concerned. The 34-year-old became the
first Chinese woman to orbit the Earth. Her milestone
highlighted a less heavenly reality: It’s easier for a Chinese
woman to circle our planet in outer space than to reach the
highest rungs of male-dominated Beijing politics.
