The Impact of the Internet The Impact of the Internet on Women in Chinaon Women in China

Meiqi FangInformation School

Renmin University of China

The Impact of the Internet on Women in China

1. The Development of the Internet

in China

2. The Impact of the Internet

on Women in China

3. Conclusion

1. The Internet Development in China The rapid development of the Internet

changes the life style of human beings profoundly.

The Internet first came forth in America in 1969. It developed much more rapidly than all other preceding technologies.

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The Internet Application in China

CHINANET

CSTNET (China Science and Technology Network)

CERNET (China Education and Research Network)

CHINAGBN (China Golden Bridge Network)

The Internet Application in China

E-Commerce E-Mail E-Learning Remote Medical Treatment Hiring On Line Collaborative Business Personal Homepage Mobile Messaging

1. The Internet Development in China In general, the Internet in China is

developing rapidly.

5.3%

94.7%

We also notice that all Internet users of 68 million only account for 5.3% of the total population of 1.3 billion.

There is promising space to develop.

2.The impact of the Internet on Women in China

2.1. The Women Policy

and the General Situation in China

2.2. The impact on Education

2.3. The impact on Employment

2.4. The impact on Medical Services

2.5. The impact on Socialization

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2.1. The Women Policy and the General Situation in China The Chinese government highly

regards the equality of men and women as a basic principle in social development

The Chinese government passed a series of laws, which provided a strong lawful support to women’s equal rights

2.1. The Women Policy and the General Situation in China Now, in our country, women have the

same social, political and economic status as men.

In the developed areas, there is only little sex discriminations.

In some less developed areas of the country, however, sometimes there are certain sex discriminations in the traditional ways.

2.2. The impact on Education In the past, women had fewer education

opportunities than men With the social progress, the education

level and proportion of women has risen greatly, but it is still lower than men.

Undergraduate(Thousand)

Femal e,2278, 41%

Mal e,3283, 59%

Graduate(Thousand)

Femal e,96, 34%

Mal e,187, 66%

2.2. The impact on Education

The Internet changed the contents, methods and even the structures of the education.

It gives women more education opportunities

2.3. The impact on Employment

Occupation is partitioned by gender traditionally.

Modern network opens up new fields of opportunities for women

The intelligence factor of network technique can effectively exploit the potential intelligence and avoid the lack of physical strength.

Some Examples

Yu Yu, CEO of the Dangdang.com,

received her BA in English Literatu

re from Beijing Foreign Studies Un

iversity, and her MBA in Finance a

nd International Business from Ne

w York University in 1992.

Some Examples

Dangdang.com, founded in Nov., 1999,

is the biggest Chinese online bookstore.

It can offer readers over 200,000 kinds of books and 10,000 video products, which cover 90% of Chinese book market.

Some Examples

Tan Haiyin, CEO of the Eachnet.com received her MBA from Harvard.

She cooperating with Shao Yibo, established the Eachnet company in 1999.

The eBay, the biggest E-commerce c

ompany of U.S.A., invested in it first i

n March,2002 and once more in june,

2003.

Some Examples

Eachnet.com is the biggest Chinese

c2c E-commerce platform. Registered users of the eachnet.com have be

en over 3.5 million and the registered goods over 20 million.

On average, a new commodity will be registered per 4 seconds and a deal will be done per 5 seconds.

Some Examples

In our ECOLAB, many academics, postgraduates, Ph.Ds. are female. And they also have made their successes.

Up to now, they have developed three products:

SIMEC EC-Game WEBCLASS

2.4. The impact on Medical Services The Internet also facilitates the medical services

of human beings.

2.5. The impact on Socialization The network changes and extends the

ways of socialization of women. By Internet, women can:

share the information and amusements express themselves communicate with others meet their needs

Women are no longer confined to the home and work place; they have more choices.

3. Conclusion

With the economy globalizing, women will face the great challenge.

The network provides women the unprecedented free space and developing opportunities.

we can do our efforts beginning with the Internet.

Thank You!

E-Mail: MQFang@public.bta.net.cn