CHE reports:

Around two-thirds of China’s top research universities still have policies that can be used to limit the proportion of women students, despite tighter government regulations issued this year against gender discrimination in universities and the workplace.

In some regions the proportion of female university students has been rising year on year, particularly in cities like Beijing and Chongqing. But some of the best universities have not abandoned restrictions on the proportion of women for some subjects.

Huang Yizhi, a Beijing-based lawyer, and Lu Pin, project leader at the Media Monitor for Women Network – a Chinese nongovernmental organization – sent a letter to the Ministry of Education requesting information on universities and degree programs that have different admissions standards based on gender.

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