Across China, women's educational attainment has soared and female undergraduates now sharply outnumber males. But women still face significant barriers getting into training and academic programs as they seek to pierce the country's traditionally male-dominated professions
Students on the campus of Chongqing Normal University in Chongqing, China on May 13, 2019. Despite outnumbering men in undergraduate studies, women often do not have the same job opportunities after college.
When Vincy Li applied to a prestigious police academy graduate program in China, she knew her odds of success were low. After all, the school set quotas, typically capping the number of female students at no more than one-quarter of the student body.
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