Women's Groups in China Warily Tap New Media
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When Lu Pin sits in her small office in Beijing and presses the send button, her weekly e-magazine offering gender-related news and analysis goes off to some 800 subscribers.
Her organization, Media Monitor for Women Network, began in the 1990s along with about a hundred others in China that were spurred by the government during the landmark 1995 U.N. women's rights conference held that year in Beijing. Last year her organization started the e-magazine, which had about 500 subscribers until June. Then it joined a Chinese social network similar to Facebook. The listserve quickly added 300 subscribers and her organization now claims 2,200 "friends"
Those numbers are miniscule compared to China's colossal statistics; 420 million Internet users, nearly 36 million more in the first six months of 2010 up from the 2009 figures. But for Lu it's all about the potential to give voice to women.
Women make up 45 percent of Internet users, according to the official China Internet Network Information Center.
But Lu and others say women don't assert themselves much online.
Read the full story: http://www.womensenews.org/story/media-stories/101221/womens-groups-in-china-war...
Her organization, Media Monitor for Women Network, began in the 1990s along with about a hundred others in China that were spurred by the government during the landmark 1995 U.N. women's rights conference held that year in Beijing. Last year her organization started the e-magazine, which had about 500 subscribers until June. Then it joined a Chinese social network similar to Facebook. The listserve quickly added 300 subscribers and her organization now claims 2,200 "friends"
Those numbers are miniscule compared to China's colossal statistics; 420 million Internet users, nearly 36 million more in the first six months of 2010 up from the 2009 figures. But for Lu it's all about the potential to give voice to women.
Women make up 45 percent of Internet users, according to the official China Internet Network Information Center.
But Lu and others say women don't assert themselves much online.
Read the full story: http://www.womensenews.org/story/media-stories/101221/womens-groups-in-china-war...
