Women

Three women among eight new senior counsel

12 May 2013

Three more women have become senior counsel, joining the top rank of barristers. The elevations of Yvonne Cheng Wai-sum, Audrey Campbell-Moffat and Roxanne Ismail reduce the sex ratio within the...

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Players present the bare facts of US 'lingerie league'

1 May 2013

If the old saying "love is blind" is true, then why is looking at women in sexy lingerie popular? Whatever your sentiment on the issue, it's this popularity that has helped the women's Legends...

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Women not mentally tough enough to race in F1, Stirling Moss says

17 Apr 2013

British motor-racing legend Stirling Moss does not believe women are mentally tough enough to compete in Formula One, despite the presence of female test drivers and team principals.

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Letters to the Editor, April 12, 2013

12 Apr 2013

I welcome the promising seven-year clean-air plan released by the government, especially the proposal for low-emission zones for franchised buses. However, the range should be expanded to private...

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Gender equality in Hong Kong comes at the expense of foreign domestic workers

12 Apr 2013

Early last month, a group of foreign domestic helpers protested against the requirement that they live with their employers. PathFinders, an organisation that works with distressed migrant workers...

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Older women bring valued experience to workplace

3 Apr 2013

Louisa Mitchell pointed out that fewer mature women are sustaining places in the workforce. Assuming the research findings to which she referred are valid, further questions need to be asked....

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Opinion

Alex Lo

A dangerous demagogue in our midst

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Jake Van Der Kamp

Ferry subsidies to push rents up further

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China's empowered women deliver a slap in the face to gender equality

I'm dedicating this April Fool's Day column to women like Yu Ruiyu, a deputy to the National People's Congress, and Wang Wenya, a member of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference....

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Why women live longer than men

If there's one area that women clearly have the upper hand over men, it's longevity. Globally, females live about six years longer than males - roughly 73 years versus 67 - and women outlive men...

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Barclays up the wrong tree

Private banks and indeed financial institutions of various kinds devote a surprising amount of time to churning out surveys of wealthy people’s investing habits, attitudes to risk, and spending....

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LEADER

Women in China still not equal to men

If a new survey by an international accounting group is correct, half (51 per cent) of senior management jobs in mainland companies are now held by women. This places the mainland ahead of Hong...

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'Impractical for women to occupy 50pc of NPC and CPPCC seats'

NPC deputy Yu Ruiyu, the president of an accounting firm, said it was good for the two bodies to allocate a percentage of seats for women, but 50 per cent would be impractical because men were...

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MANAGEMENT

Mainland Chinese women top the world in holding senior business roles, survey shows

The survey, conducted from November to January, found half (51 per cent) of senior management roles in mainland companies were held by women, more than double the 25 per cent from a similar survey...

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