Making sense of this election’s very strange abortion politics.

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Making sense of this election’s very strange abortion politics.

Apart from promising to safeguard abortion rights, the campaign didn’t do enough to address other issues important to women.

© Damon Winter/The New York Times

Apart from promising to safeguard abortion rights, the campaign didn’t do enough to address other issues important to women.

You can’t count him out, sadly.

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You can’t count him out, sadly.

Comedy has become a way for women to skewer China’s gender inequality. Some men aren’t happy about it.

Look at trends, not anecdotes.

The government is again trying to insert itself into women’s childbearing decisions, knocking on doors and making calls with questions some find downright invasive.

Growing numbers of Chinese women are challenging a longstanding tradition that denies them village membership, and the lucrative payouts that go with it.

Su Min became an internet sensation for leaving behind an abusive husband to drive across China alone. Now she’s ending the marriage, but there will be a price.