Why female managers have the edge over males

Women in China play a very important role in management. A larger proportion of women occupy leadership positions in China than in most countries, including most Western countries, though the proportion is still far below half.

There are three reasons for this. The most important, I think, are rooted in the development of Chinese society in the past few decades.

First, the establishment of the People's Republic of China pushed back the traditional values of female inferiority. The first law passed in New China was the marriage law, which set up equal rights for women and men in families, a revolutionary outcome departing from thousands of years of tradition. Along with the new legal regulations, women obtained equal legal rights with men in most contexts, including in the workplace.