An interesting piece in the NYT (“How a Chinese Billionaire Built Her Fortune”) observes:
“No country has
more self-made female billionaires than China. The Communist party, under Mao
Zedong, promoted gender equality, allowing women to flourish after capitalism
started to take hold, according to Huang Yasheng, an expert in China’s
entrepreneurial class and a professor of international management at M.I.T.”