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Chinese Communist Party hierarchy remains an all-boys club after more than a century

If all goes smoothly, it will be another "men in black" style group photo for the Chinese Communist Party's (CCP) new leadership after its 20th National Congress this week.

In Beijing, the political struggle will be intense, and the power distribution will be mysterious, but one thing will be certain: no women will be elected to the CCP's top elite decision-making group led by General Secretary Xi Jinping.

"It seems there is an unwritten rule that no women are in the top leadership," said Dr Wang Pan, an expert on China's gender issues at the University of New South Wales. 

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