Its impact on Chinese women
Twenty-five years ago China began to promote its one-child-for-one-couple policy in order to curb massive population growth and ensure economic security for its people.
Woman’s Hour looks at the effect of the policy on the lives of Chinese women, hearing from those for whom freedom from repeated pregnancy has brought benefits and from others who have been forced to undergo sterilisation or abortion.
And Jenni is joined in the studio by Dr Rachel Murphy, Research Fellow at the Institute for Chinese Studies at Oxford University and Jhang Lijia, who has written on social changes affecting women in China.
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