The day she won election for village head of Gaojie, a hamlet of 1,217 in hilly loess country in northern Shaanxi Province, Bai Yitong was a fresh-faced 19-year-old with scraped-back hair and big, square-rimmed glasses. She is also part of a tiny minority of “just a few percent” of female village heads in , according to Zou Xiaoqiao, a top official at the All-China Women’s Federation, the Communist Party-led women’s organization.
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The day she won election for village head of Gaojie, a hamlet of 1,217 in hilly loess country in northern Shaanxi Province, Bai Yitong was a fresh-faced 19-year-old with scraped-back hair and big, square-rimmed glasses. She is also part of a tiny minority of “just a few percent” of female village heads in , according to Zou Xiaoqiao, a top official at the All-China Women’s Federation, the Communist Party-led women’s organization.
To read the complete news story please visit the New York Times.