A woman worker in Shanghai recently wrote to the Shanghai Municipal Women’s Federation: “With the deepening of the economic reform, our factory has started to make huge reductions in the staff and has made it a rule that all women workers aged 45 or older must leave their posts and wait for retirement. I am one of them. Of course, society won’t progress if we don’t carry out the reform. But don’t the interests of society and the interests of women coincide? Where is the answer out for China’s women workers?” At the end of 1992 an investigation by the Women Workers Department under A woman worker in Shanghai recently wrote to the Shanghai Municipal Women’s Federation: “With the deepening of the economic reform, our factory has started to make huge reductions in the staff and has made it a rule that all women workers aged 45 or older must Of course, society will not progress if we do not carry out the reform. But do not the interests of society and the interests of women coincide? Where is the answer out for China’s women workers? ”At the end of 1992 an investigation by the Women Workers Department under