This International Women’s Day, support liberal democracy by defending women’s rights against authoritarianism

From China to Russia and Hungary, there is a very clear overlap between the embrace of strongman rule and the erosion of women’s rights

Leta Hong Fincher

Published: 3:00am, 8 Mar, 2019

Updated: 4:55am, 8 Mar, 2019

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Leta Hong Fincher

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Leta Hong Fincher is the author of Betraying Big Brother: The Feminist Awakening in China and Leftover Women: The Resurgence of Gender Inequality in China. She is the first American to receive a PhD from Tsinghua University's Department of Sociology in Beijing.