Group 3

Yin & Yang
“Nature is balanced, so should everything else in the world.”

Trần Quang Tùng [e-mail] Nguyễn Thị Thảo Nguyên [e-mail]
Trần Quý Đức [e-mail] Trần Phương Thanh [e-mail] GENDER DISCRIMINATION IN
TOP POSITIONS IN CHINA

There are more professional women than before

but

they are still under-represented in the senior level positions

Gender Discrimination at Workplace

The different in treatment that occur when individually are purposive treated differently by the virtue of their group membership

Gender Gap Index of China

Solutions
• Explaining Gender Discrimination laws
• Anti-discrimination Policies
• Training Programs

Explain Gender Discrimination Laws
• Employers should educate themselves and employees on
Chinese law about gender discrimination.
• Organize some classes to increase awareness of law of employees and managers.
• Give out information to employees how to claim a gender discrimination issue.

Anti Gender Discrimination Policy

• Having a policy that prohibits discrimination in the company. • Distribute to all managers and employees of the company
• Employees should sign an acknowledgment that they understand and will abide by this policy.
• Create a pay scale based on the contributions and responsibilities, pay equally between men and women.

Training program
• Training should be conducted throughout the organization, starting with top management and down through the ranks.
• Cultural training seminars and workshops. With participation of professional trainers or expert consultant and members of the human resources department.
• Skill-building programs targeted specifically at talented female employees

Implication plan
1) Do a survey => evaluate the level of gender discrimination in top positions in the company/organization 2) Propose an anti-gender discrimination human resource policy
3) Publish this policy for all workers and have the training program at the same time.
4) Survey again to get feedback and have adjustment if necessary.

Recommendations
Short-term:
• Create training sessions about Gender Equality for employees who have got married.
• Use the power of media (printed news, online news, TV, ads, internet, radio…) to change people mindset about Gender
Inequality.
• Extend the retirement age of female employee.
• Increase enforcement of existing laws against gender-based employment discrimination.

Long-term:
• Increase mentorship and other efforts to boost the number of women in traditionally male occupations and in positions of political leadership.
• Increase government funding of high-quality day-care options to enable parents, and especially mothers, to work outside the home if they so desire, and to do so without fear that their finances or their children’s well-being will be compromised. • Reduce socialization by parents and other adults of girls and boys into traditional gender roles.