THE PLIGHT of a woman struggling to find a job anywhere in the world plucks the heartstrings of the feminist journalist. And the woman who has found a job and left her children to be raised by others in some remote Communist village causes these same strings to resound with cheerful hosannas.

Didi Kirsten Tatlow writes in today’s New York Times about the plight of women in China, who still have problems despite the certain guarantees of feminism to remove all problems and who are not yet universally favored over men in China. As is typical of these vacuous  foreign reports on the ongoing oppression of women, there is not the slightest acknowledgement that men and children are human beings who are at least as entitled to happiness as women.

Ms. Tatlow describes one success story:

Ms. Shi’s eyes shine as she talks about her steady accumulation of wealth, far outstripping what her mother was able to save in farming. “I have taken advantage of every opportunity that I had, and I have always worked hard,” she said. “Things are good. Very good.”

The mother of a 16-year-old son and a 3-year-old daughter, she can now apply for her children to legally join her because buying property confers this right, she said. The children have always lived in her mountain village of 300, with her parents.

The return of “powerful cultural traditions that value men over women” threatens good old-fashioned Communism, according to Ms. Tatlow. “Powerful cultural traditions” are, she fails to mention, those traditions that made it possible for men to work hard. Ms. Tatlow reports:

Many employers are choosing not to hire women in an economy where there is an oversupply of labor and women are perceived as bringing additional expense in the form of maternity leave and childbirth costs.

Women are only perceived as bringing additional expense even though the law mandates that companies cover these expenses.

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