Women buying into online economy

Women are playing a part as important as their male peers in driving the growth of e-commerce in China, a report said on Thursday.

As of last year, women were running more than half of the shops on Taobao and Tmall, the two largest online platforms in China, and women-owned shops accounted for more than 46 percent of online transactions in 2014, according to a report by AliResearch, an affiliate of Alibaba Group Holding Ltd.

Taobao and Tmall are both run by Alibaba.