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The Tibetan Women's Federation recently celebrated its 50th anniversary in a conference that brought together women of all ethnicity from all corners of Tibet.

The conference's delegates and organizers painted it as chance to commemorate the gains women have made in the fifty years since the organizations founding. BON takes a closer look at those delegates, and their claims for women's progress inside Tibet.

China has recently implemented policies aimed at increasing enrollment into its universities in the name of education. The aim is obviously to make the country's workforce more qualified.  But paradoxically, one unintended consequence of this policy has been rising unemployment among graduates. As a result, students are having to prepare ever earlier for the tough job market that awaits them.

Now, France will soon debate a bill phasing in a female quota for boardrooms as the country strives to get more women into positions of power in business. If the law is passed, it could be made mandatory to set aside 40 percent of spots in the boardroom to women.

Spain and the Netherlands have already passed similar laws for female quotas. Belgium, Britain, Germany and Sweden are considering legislation. In the European Union, less than 10 percent of the board members at the top 300 companies were women in 2008, versus 8 percent in 2004. That's according to the European Professional Women's Network.

In the U.S., roughly 15 percent of the board members of the Fortune 500 companies are women. In China women hold roughly 5 percent of board seats, in Japan, just 1.4 percent. In today's Straight from the Street we asked people here if they think more needs to be done in CHINA to get women into positions of power in the business world.

In China's big cities, the amount of unmarried men outnumbers single women. However, despite the abundance of choice, many of today's urban women in China are remaining single for longer than in any previous generation.

The trend has even given rise to a new term- sheng nu- used to describe Chinese women choosing not to rush into marriage.