Last week a poster in Beijing's Xicheng district civil affairs bureau marriage registration office drew criticism for being discriminatory to women. The poster read: "A woman's best achievement is to be a good housewife and a good mother. Why do women compete with men for resources and territory?"

Although protests forced the removal of the poster the next day, the civil affair authorities denied it was discriminatory to women, saying it only reiterated a "traditional concept".

First, the poster represented the trash of traditional culture. Sadly, some people still believe women are inferior to men. The traditional concept that "men work outside the family while women stay at home" fosters the belief that women can only be "good housewives" and "good mothers".