The daughter also rises
天行健,女子以自强不息
ZHANG YIN was the eldest of eight childrenof a lowly Red Army officer who was imprisoned during the Cultural Revolution for capitalistoffences. Today she is one of the worlds richest self-made women, with an estimated fortuneof $1.6 billion. In the early 1980s, as a dogsbody in a paper mill, she noted that the wastepaper her superiors so casually discarded was actually worth something. She has beencapitalising on her insight ever since. Nine Dragons Paper, which she founded with her husbandin 1995, is now one of the worlds largest paper recyclers.
张茵出生在一个普通的红军军官家庭,是家里八个孩子中最大的。父亲曾在文革时期因走资本主义道路被关进监狱。而今天拥有16亿美元资产的她却成为了世界上最富有的白手起家的女性之一。在80年代初期,张茵在一家造纸厂做杂工。在此期间她注意到工人们随便丢弃的废纸实际上还有利用价值的。从此她的洞察力给她带来了源源不断的财富。1995年张茵和丈夫一起创办的玖龙纸业,现如今已成为了世界上最大的废纸回收企业之一。
The emerging world is home to many businesswomen like Ms Zhang. Seven of the 14 womenidentified on Forbes magazines list of self-made billionaires are Chinese. Many firms inemerging markets do a better job of promoting women than their Western rivals, somesurveys suggest. In China, 32% of senior managers are female, compared with 23% in Americaand 19% in Britain. In India, 11% of chief executives of large companies are female, comparedwith 3% of Fortune 500 bosses in America and 3% of FTSE 100 bosses in Britain. Turkey andBrazil come third and joint fourth in the World Economic Forumsranking of countries by the proportion of CEOs who are women. In Brazil, 11% of chiefexecutives and 30% of senior executives are women.
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