To be a woman in China
With 1.4 billion citizens, mainland China is the world’s most populous country and home to one in five women on our planet, from rice farmers to multimillionaires. One of two extremes: China has the world’s greatest number of self-made female billionaires and until recently had the world’s highest suicide rates among women, with women in rural China often ending their lives by drinking pesticides
Marie Claire magazine October 2012