Women vulnerable to sex discrimination in workplace

A recent report shows that one fourth of all women is rejected from a job due to sex discrimination. It’s hard to do something about it, because the rules aren’t very clear about sex discrimination and the government doesn’t cooperate either. So it’s very difficult to find some evidence in the law.

The report was made by the Center for Women’s Law and Legal Services of Peking University. They say that there is a lot of sex discrimination in the job market in China. The report is based on personal statements of female job applicants. Many of them feel very angry because they are treated very badly and unfair.

It’s not that the female applicants can’t protect themselves. They don’t have any laws they can refer to. It’s very difficult to find evidence, so they have no power to protect their rights. The government can make more laws and specify the laws so there can’t be any mistakes and the women can protect themselves.

It’s not impossible to sue an employer for sex discrimination, but the question we need to ask is if the decision makers want to solve the problem. Even in the governments offices there is sex discrimination.

I think it’s awful that women in China are victims of sex discrimination. The worst of all is that the Chinese government doesn’t do anything about it. Women must be equal to men. I think the Chinese government must make some new laws and complete the existing laws, because now it’s almost impossible to sue an employer for sex discrimination and that is not the way it supposes to be. The women who made the report have done some good work and I hope that a lot of people will read it and take action to force the government to chance the laws so that the women are equally treated as the men.

Jonas Hillemans
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source: http://opinion.globaltimes.cn/commentary/2009-06/438474.html