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In China, one giant leap for womankind?

The Christian Science Monitor

In a country where “women hold up half the sky” in Mao Zedong’s celebrated phrase, and while one of their number orbits the globe far above the sky, Chinese women’s earthly rights are in trouble. Major Liu Yang’s breakthrough as China’s first female astronaut and her current exploits in…

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