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Start later, leave earlier, bring your kids to work. These are some of the perks being offered via “mum jobs”. Local government officials hope they will boost China’s declining birthrates and productivity. So why are they causing uproar among the women they’re supposed to be helping? 


Hosts: Sarah Wu, The Economist’s China correspondent and our China researcher, Jiehao Chen.

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