I also read it with the uncharitable reading. I think if OP's intention was this, they shouldn't talk about China in such general terms.

Even with the "charitable reading", I don't agree with OP. China is ranked better on the gender inequality index than America. This would fit in with the notion of government approval and subject to government control, or lack therefore. Similar picture with self-made billionaire women. Does that mean the United States should strive for the contrary?

I can't give them points for enslaving men and women equally.

Because the U.S. certainly doesn't use slave labor...

https://www.aclu.org/news/human-rights/captive-labor-exploit...

Did I say anything about giving the US points?

So then, should the useful heuristic include the US as well? By far, the most imprisoning country in the history of the Earth? Whose major technology companies have been clearly documented to be funneling user information to that same state's security services?

If you want to talk about the US, go start a thread about that. This was a specific comment about a specific claim made about China.

Yes. Once you get rid of nepotism gender equality suffers because you go from 'is the child of X' as the metric of success to 'did X' instead.

So China has a more equal gender distribution of both oppressors, and the oppressed? Indeed, veeeeeery impressive.

I am under no obligation to pedantically cover every possible nuance in my comments. Others have done a much better job at that anyway.