photo: Movie "Jin Zhiying Born in 1982"
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China as an example:
According to the "2020 Survey Report on the Status Quo of Chinese Women in the Workplace" released by a well-known Internet recruitment platform in China, 27% of women have encountered the situation of "employers restrict the gender of the position when applying for a job".
China's labor law stipulates that women enjoy equal employment rights with men. When recruiting employees, except for the types of jobs or positions that are not suitable for women as stipulated by the state, no women may be refused or the standards for recruiting women should be raised on the grounds of gender. But the warning effect of the law is limited. Yang Baoquan, a senior partner of Beijing Zhongyin Law Firm, said in an interview with a reporter from China Youth Daily and China Youth Daily that from the current point of view, there is still a relatively severe phenomenon of gender discrimination in employment in my country. Many employers have exploited legal loopholes to openly list male-only requirements in their recruitment conditions, thereby directly excluding women from their jobs. Yang Baoquan said that this situation is particularly prominent when female college students are employed. According to a survey conducted by the Women's Research Institute of the All-China Women's Federation in 2015 in many colleges and universities in Beijing and other places, up to 86.6% of female college students have experienced one or more types of gender discrimination in recruitment, and more than 80% of female engineering college students.
On a certain social media in China, a support article titled "When asked when to give birth, how to answer to satisfy the interviewer" was forwarded and collected by many netizens. Faced with seemingly "unsolved" practical problems, many female job seekers can only choose to passively adapt.
South Korea as an example
At a personnel hearing held by the Korean National Assembly not long ago, the candidate for the chairman of the Fair Trade Commission, Zhao Chengxu, was accused by a conservative male congressman that she was unmarried and did not have children, failed to assume national responsibilities, and failed to contribute to national development. Therefore not a qualified candidate. The accusation caused a public outcry. Cho Sung-wook is the first woman in South Korea to study for a doctorate in economics at Harvard, and she is also a professor of finance at Seoul National University. She has a very dazzling resume, but she still depends on the conservatism of society.
For many Korean women, the moment they choose to have children, they are prepared to sever all social ties. "I gave birth to a child, and it was terribly painful. I gave up my life, my job, my dreams, my life, gave up on myself, raised my child, and ended up being a 'mother bug'. What should I do now? In many extreme cases, you have to give up your life in order to have a life." The protagonist of the movie "Jin Zhiying Born in 1982" said so.
Because of the popularity of the movie, "mother bug" has also become a popular word in Korea recently, satirizing those stay-at-home mothers who rely on their husbands to support themselves and eat, drink, and have fun. The soil for the emergence of this discriminatory term is precisely the awareness that has long shrouded Korean society - women can only be subordinate to men, and mothers must sacrifice dedication and suppress desires.
A survey in South Korea shows that full-time housewives who take care of children from zero to two years old have only about 4 hours of leisure time a day, but their labor value is difficult to be recognized.
At the same time, the Korean workplace has always been unfriendly to women. Taking 2015 as an example, the average wage gap between men and women in OECD (Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development, OECD) member countries was 14.5%, while that in South Korea was as high as 37.2%. One in five Korean married women quit their job because of marriage and childbirth. Even in 2018, the salary of women in the Korean workplace was only 66.6% of that of men.
Several female respondents said that women who returned to the workplace after giving birth also suffered from implicit discrimination. "Although the law stipulates that maternity leave can be taken for three months, many mothers rush back to work without waiting for the maternity leave to end. It is often heard that at such an old age, if you are a mother of two children, why do you come back?"
"In this case, married women who want to get a job don't dare to have children at all, while unmarried women who want to gain work experience avoid marriage. This is the reality of South Korea." Yun Hongji, a scholar at the Seoul Institute of Social Welfare, told "Phoenix" Weekly Review said.
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