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What Do Women Want? Giving University Women in Hong Kong a Voice

What Do Women Want? Giving University Women in Hong Kong a Voice 04_Fem 9(2) reviews and Obs. 30/3/99 12:20 pm Page 243 III What Do Women Want? Giving University Women in Hong Kong a Voice Catherine W. NG Not unlike their sisters all over the world (United Nations, 1991), Hong Kong women are underrepresented in public administration and political offices. The proportion of female members in the Executive Council, which is comparable to the ‘Cabinet’ in the West in status but not in nature, was 25 percent as of 2 January 1993 (Lui, 1995: 138). In the 1991 elections, 10 percent, 16 percent, 8 percent, and 11 percent of the candidates running for seats in, respectively, the District Boards, the Urban Council, the Regional Council, and the Legislative Council were female (Lui, 1995: 145). In 1992, the percentage of female office bearers in four major political parties – the Democratic Alliance for the Betterment of Hong Kong (DAB), the Liberal Democratic Federation of Hong Kong (LDF), Meeting Point, and the United Democrats of Hong Kong – were correspondingly 10.3 percent, 12.1 percent, 11 percent, and 8.5 percent (Lui, 1995: 149). There is also significant sex segregation, both horizontally by occupation and vertically by level of position in the labor market, and http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Feminism & Psychology: An International Journal SAGE

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04_Fem 9(2) reviews and Obs. 30/3/99 12:20 pm Page 243 III What Do Women Want? Giving University Women in Hong Kong a Voice Catherine W. NG Not unlike their sisters all over the world (United Nations, 1991), Hong Kong women are underrepresented in public administration and political offices. The proportion of female members in the Executive Council, which is comparable to the ‘Cabinet’ in the West in status but not in nature, was 25 percent as of 2 January 1993 (Lui, 1995: 138). In the 1991 elections, 10 percent, 16 percent, 8 percent, and 11 percent of the candidates running for seats in, respectively, the District Boards, the Urban Council, the Regional Council, and the Legislative Council were female (Lui, 1995: 145). In 1992, the percentage of female office bearers in four major political parties – the Democratic Alliance for the Betterment of Hong Kong (DAB), the Liberal Democratic Federation of Hong Kong (LDF), Meeting Point, and the United Democrats of Hong Kong – were correspondingly 10.3 percent, 12.1 percent, 11 percent, and 8.5 percent (Lui, 1995: 149). There is also significant sex segregation, both horizontally by occupation and vertically by level of position in the labor market, and

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