China Law Blog - China Corruption. It's A Guy Thing? - Comments http://www.chinalawblog.com/ China Law for Business en Copyright 2011 Fri, 29 Jul 2011 11:46:42 -0800 Fri, 29 Jul 2011 11:46:42 -0800 http://www.sixapart.com/movabletype/?v=4.32-en http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss Zhang Fei I can say with certainty that it's got nothing to do with gender. There's a lot of low-level corruption involving females in China - it's just that the high-level cadres who get any press* tend to be overwhelmingly male.

* The limited pursuit and coverage of corrupt high-level officials is mounted so the government can buttress the traditional millenia-old Chinese narrative that the central government is good, and it's the provincial officials who are corrupt.

]]> http://www.chinalawblog.com/2007/12/china_corruption_its_a_guy_thi.html#9588 http://www.chinalawblog.com/2007/12/china_corruption_its_a_guy_thi.html#9588 Legal News Wed, 26 Dec 2007 14:17:03 -0800 Dan Jenny It is a gender thing. The corrupt females are a lot better at hiding their crime than the careless males. It is the lack of attention to details that did the males in.

]]> http://www.chinalawblog.com/2007/12/china_corruption_its_a_guy_thi.html#9589 http://www.chinalawblog.com/2007/12/china_corruption_its_a_guy_thi.html#9589 Legal News Wed, 26 Dec 2007 14:17:03 -0800 Dan Stan Good topic, but no one has any evidence one way or another. Excellent opportunity to speculate!

I bet the usual "gift" giving to a government official in the amount of a few thousand RMB, a mobile phone, box of fruit at Spring Festival, etc. is quite gender neutral.

The big splashy dinner, KTV, and hooker scenario, on the other hand, is a very male thing. Also can be much more expensive. Probably same deal with those trips abroad, like the ones Lucent is in trouble for right now - wonder how many female officials were involved on that one?

]]> http://www.chinalawblog.com/2007/12/china_corruption_its_a_guy_thi.html#9590 http://www.chinalawblog.com/2007/12/china_corruption_its_a_guy_thi.html#9590 Legal News Wed, 26 Dec 2007 14:17:03 -0800 Dan Chip I don't have enough experience to quantify an opinion, but I personally assume men are more likely to be involved in corruption simply because I think men are just more evil in general. But we're good at lifting heavy objects.

]]> http://www.chinalawblog.com/2007/12/china_corruption_its_a_guy_thi.html#9591 http://www.chinalawblog.com/2007/12/china_corruption_its_a_guy_thi.html#9591 Legal News Wed, 26 Dec 2007 14:17:03 -0800 Dan corbett Women don't seem to drop as much cash on the KTV girls and booze. But does that mean they aren't skimming? Ha. How are they affording that new LV bag or that Chanel scarf? Look closely. Those are not fakes.

]]> http://www.chinalawblog.com/2007/12/china_corruption_its_a_guy_thi.html#9592 http://www.chinalawblog.com/2007/12/china_corruption_its_a_guy_thi.html#9592 Legal News Wed, 26 Dec 2007 14:17:03 -0800 Dan Will Lewis Different country, but Mexico City made a big push 10 years back to replace male traffic cops with female cops because they were deemed less corrupt. I think there was a 60 Minutes or something on this, but here's a link:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/americas/408622.stm

]]> http://www.chinalawblog.com/2007/12/china_corruption_its_a_guy_thi.html#9593 http://www.chinalawblog.com/2007/12/china_corruption_its_a_guy_thi.html#9593 Legal News Wed, 26 Dec 2007 14:17:03 -0800 Dan Law Office of Todd L. Platek Absolutely not a gender issue. You only noticed it more in males because males more obviously/publicly wield power. You also haven't been involved with that many females. Believe me, it's a 50/50 split.

]]> http://www.chinalawblog.com/2007/12/china_corruption_its_a_guy_thi.html#9594 http://www.chinalawblog.com/2007/12/china_corruption_its_a_guy_thi.html#9594 Legal News Wed, 26 Dec 2007 14:17:03 -0800 Dan anon My antecdotal evidence agrees with the other commentors here, female cadres are equally open to corruption but there are far fewer of them and they enjoy their ill gotten gain in a less obvious manner.

]]> http://www.chinalawblog.com/2007/12/china_corruption_its_a_guy_thi.html#9595 http://www.chinalawblog.com/2007/12/china_corruption_its_a_guy_thi.html#9595 Legal News Wed, 26 Dec 2007 14:17:03 -0800 Dan Martin Jones I think it is more a matter of opportunity to be corrupt. Men in China seem to have the edge over the women in that regard.

]]> http://www.chinalawblog.com/2007/12/china_corruption_its_a_guy_thi.html#9596 http://www.chinalawblog.com/2007/12/china_corruption_its_a_guy_thi.html#9596 Legal News Wed, 26 Dec 2007 14:17:03 -0800 Dan