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Women hold up half the sky is literally a famous quote by Mao. China absolutely has its issues with patriarchy but much of this is cultural and can't be easily dealt with from the top down (though this was attempted). Things are getting better for women in China as time goes on and there is serious work being put in to accomplish this. Can you say the same for your country?
Women in my country are so liberated they can be prostitutes!
Legalising sex work is essential to sex workers' safety from pimps and trafficking. Every country has sex workers. The difference is whether those sex workers are protected by labour regulations.
I heard a story from a sex worker about women who are desperate to escape their home country, so they sign up for a shady "immigration" service. Turns out, it's a scam and the woman is now essentially a sex slave. She's in the country she wants to be in, but she's an indentured servant at best. The country where this is happening, being an "enlightened" western nation, busts up the sex trafficking and sends the woman back home. To the country she sold herself into sex slavery to escape. That's not justice. That's not helping women. And that's something that can even happen in a place where sex work is legal.
Every postsocialist country rapidly expanded this freedom!