How are Chinese women more ambitious and of the 20 richest self-made female billionaires, 11 are Chinese?

The answer is simple . . . there's money to be made in China.

However, it's too bad that all, or even most, women don't enjoy such success.

More women in China commit suicide than in any other country in the world. This is not only in relation to actual numbers, but also in relation to percentages.
http://www.chinadaily.com.cn/china/2007-09/11/content_6095710.htm

More people (thus, more women) live in poverty in China than in the United States.
http://data.worldbank.org/topic/poverty

Women's rights in China are pretty much in "theory" only. The majority of women don't enjoy the "good life" as you see it as there is a large gap between said theory and practice.

"Figures released by the UN on Monday estimate that around 85 million women are missing from India and China.

"The report says these women died from discriminatory health care and neglect or were killed before or after birth. It adds many problems women face today are due to traditions that are rooted across the Asian continent."http://www.dw-world.de/dw/article/0,,5332559,00.html

Violence against women in China is considered to be a "normal" part of life.

"Although women in China have experienced significant progress in recent times, the idea that women should be in subordinate positions to men in the household and in society still persists. Also, because men consider themselves the main breadwinners, they think that they have the right to maintain order at home by using violence." http://www.theglobalist.com/storyid.aspx?StoryId=8671

There is a gender imbalance of approximately 120 men for 100 women in China. This is due to sex-specific abortions, female infanticide and female child abandonment. The orphanages in China are filled with healthy girls and boys with birth defects. China, in a sense, "sells" her girl children in international adoptions.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/8451289.stm
http://www.adoptioninstitute.org/FactOverview/international.html

The life of a rural woman in China is probably among the most difficult in the world. Using bullet points, her life looks like this:

* Born into a family trying to have a boy.
* Lives on a farm
* Goes to school until about third grade or so
* Drops out of school to work on the farm
* Gets married around age 18 - 20
* Has a baby the first year of marriage
* Has another baby the next year
* Has a third baby the year after that
(Rural families are allowed to have more than one child, especially if the first child is a girl.)

Perhaps this woman has been forced to give up some of her children because they were girls. This reinforces the fact that women are not valued in Chinese rural society. There is no emotional support for the woman who has been forced to abandon her children.

In the meantime, the husband decides that life on the farm is too slow or he decides that he isn’t making enough money. He packs up and moves to a big city, a part of the massive migrant work force in China, leaving his wife and multiple children to eke out a living on the farm. Because the wife is "too young" and "too inexperienced," the husband's mother (typically, the most powerful person in the family) takes over their household. In many rural areas, the daughter-in-law is considered to be a servant and this is perpetuated in areas with low education levels. She's a baby machine who has no say in the lives of her children and she spends her days cleaning, washing and doing what mother-in-law wants.

Husband is supposed to come home at Chinese New Year with his salary for the year. However, the weather is too bad or his salary got stolen on the train/bus on the way. Or, the money's not enough. Or she doesn't get to go see her own family at such an important holiday because she's a non-entity. Or she is overwhelmed with grief at the thought of her "missing" children . . . children that no one else even recognize as existing. She has no one to talk to about these children.

Or, springtime comes and the weather is too bad to make the spring planting. Or in autumn, the crops fail. Or a drought completely obliterates the crop.

These women are not supported by society. They are doing the best they can, but have no voice in their own lives. Their only hope is to make it to the point where *they* can be the mother-in-law and then the vicious cycle continues. They give as much as they received . . . learned by example that power corrupts.

Or, they don't make it. One day, she looks around at her life and she sees no hope for her future. Her children don't need her . . . they have grandmother. Her husband doesn't need her . . . he's off making money. Her mother-in-law only needs her to do more work. One more fight with mother-in-law and that's it. She drinks the pesticide and dies a horrible death. But then, she's beyond the pain of her existence and life goes on without her, usually with no one missing her. If she has daughters, then they see that no one grieves the loss of this woman and that reinforces that women are just not important. Life goes on, a bit more difficult because one of the workhorses is gone.

Sad, isn't it? This happens every day. Much more often than a woman becoming a millionaire or billionaire.

Some are rich thru different ways, the "charts" just wanna expose the illegal riches, and want them get caught, many riches say that these are not the real charts, the real charts will never be go public, and wealth could be counted on different ways, if it is counted in the unit of family, you will get a whole different chart, and maybe that should be the real chart.

Equality courtesy of communism. Results in women believing they can be equal to men and achieving any goals. Even the average Chinese lady is rather ambitious. With the single child policy, no longer is the boy the sole key to the future. So, if a family has a daughter, they'll push her to her max abilities to become someone.

I wouldn't be surprised, my Chinese wife is really ambitious, knows how to keep a man, and knows the value of a dollar. She doesn't piss away money on things like extra shoes or scented candles like American girls do. In fact, she's determined to make more money than me, but if she only cared about money then she would have married a rich guy, not me. Chinese culture is also very romantic, it's not always about money. A lot of their music and literature is testament to that.

Keep in mind that when looking at this "women billionaires" article that Chinese women have easier access to a lot of cheap labor and foreign trade in China unlike other nationalities, so naturally they will have an advantage in terms of competition and opportunity. It's hardly a measure of ambition.

Deng's economic boom quote (can't remember it) inspired many Chinese to become entrepreneurs. Combine this with the modernization of China and its social equality (or in theory social equality) in communism and you have a recipe for many successful women. The difference between the US and China and why America still has few women billionaires is most likely due how feminism took hold in China. Women have more rights in China than ever before. However, in America we believe women deserve special rights BECAUSE they are women. Chinese women do not get anything handed to them and this encourages hard work. Most American women know that all they have to do is marry a guy, divorce him and live off his assets.