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A likelier explanation is China's manufacturing boom, which afforded women unprecedented opportunities.
一個更有可能的解釋是中國制造業蓬勃發展，為女性提供了史無前例的機遇。
In 1968 Mao Zedong enjoined female labourers to hold up "half the sky"; by the 1980s their labourforce participation hovered around 80%.
1968年，毛主席提出婦女能頂半邊天；到20世紀80年代，她們的勞動參與力徘徊在80%。
Britain's then stood at 60%, and America's lower still. India, with a similar GDP per person to China at the time, barely managed 30%.
而當時的英國為60%，美國更少。那時印度和中國的人均GDP差不多，但也只是勉強達到30%。
Many successful Chinese businesswomen rose from the factory floor.
很多成功的中國女商人都是從普通工人成長起來的。
In 2015 Zhou Qunfei, an erstwhile migrant worker who went on to found Lens Technology, maker of screens for Apple,
2015年，周群飛曾是一名農民工，后來創立了藍思科技—蘋果屏幕制造商，
took the title of the world's wealthiest self-made woman.
她獲得了世界最富有的白手起家女性的稱號。
After the government expanded college attendance in 1999, women began to prop up more than half the educational firmament:
1999年，政府擴大了大學入學率后，女性開始支撐起一半以上的教育業：
they make up 56% of graduates, though only 87 girls are born for every 100 boys.
她們占畢業生的56%，雖然男孩女孩出生比為100:87。
According to the Global Entrepreneurship Monitor, an index of startup activity,
根據創業公司活動指數全球創業觀察，
for ten men starting a business in China, eight women launch theirs.
在中國，男女性創業比為10:8。
Between 2010 and 2018 China dropped from 61st (among 134 countries)
根據《世界經濟論壇性別差距報告》，在2010年和2018年間，
to 103rd (out of 149) in the World Economic Forum's Gender Gap Report.
中國從第61名（共134個國家）下降至第103名（共149個國家）。
Economic disparities between the sexes tend to narrow as countries grow richer.
隨著國家日益富裕，兩性之間的經濟差距往往會縮小。
China's have widened, as privatisations in the 1990s prompted a sharper decline
隨著20世紀90年代私有化導致男性城市勞動力人數驟減，
in the number of women than of men in the urban workforce and as women moved into lower-paying service jobs.
女性驟減更為劇烈，并且女性進入了薪酬較低的服務業，這些導致中國兩性差距擴大。
Relative to that of men, female participation has been flat or falling every year since 2009, to 69%,
相較于男性，自2009年以來，女性參與率一直平緩或是每年下降并降至69%，
similar to Japan and below Vietnam, Cambodia and Laos.
此比例和日本相同，且低于越南、柬埔寨和老撾。
Female wages, which were 17% below male wages in the early 1990s, are now 36% lower.
20世紀90年代初期，女性工資比男性工資低17%，如今低36%。
A new Hurun list of 46 self-made billionaires under the age of 40 includes 16 Chinese founders,
胡潤新出爐了一份名單，46位白手起家的40歲以下億萬富翁名單中，有16位是中國創始人，
but just two—both of them wives in couples that launched internet platforms—are women.
但僅有兩位是女性，而這兩位女性都是互聯網平臺創始人的妻子。
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