Female employees in China are not paid as much as male employees, and the comment section responded with a response: We want equal rights. What do you think?

At the end of 2020, the World Economic Forum released the "2020 Global Gender Gap Report", which triggered heated discussions as soon as it was released.

Later, a well-known psychology public account made the report into a visualization chart. By listing various data in the report, it came to a very surprising conclusion: China’s inequality between men and women is increasing. intensified.

This article moved many people. Many people expressed shock in the comment area and called for equal rights for men and women.

Is this conclusion credible? Are the gender issues in China really getting worse?

The "2020 Global Gender Gap Report" actually uses some unreliable data.

The data shows that Chinese female employees receive only 64% of the salary of male employees of the same level.

But in fact, the "2020 Global Gender Gap Report" only sent questionnaires to corporate executives from various countries. Can the salaries of a few executives really reflect the general status of Chinese women's salary income? ? Is such a crude investigation really a scientific analysis? The report's investigative approach is clearly questionable.

Even if the "2020 Global Gender Gap Report" is credible, some of the arguments in this public account article actually have the problem of avoiding important issues and minimizing them.

The article also mentioned that Chinese women are constantly being deprived of opportunities to go to school and work.

However, the "2020 Global Gender Gap Report" specifically mentioned that Chinese women have a 22% higher chance of receiving higher education than men, firmly occupying the first position in the world. The proportion of people working in the technical sector is also 7% higher than that of men, also ranking first in the world.

Only the courage to criticize, but not the courage to praise. If a psychology public account publishes such an article, it will inevitably be suspected of misleading viewers.

The problem of domestic discrimination between men and women does exist. The "2020 Survey Report on the Current Situation of Chinese Women in the Workplace" shows that female workers will indeed encounter certain discrimination when applying for jobs, such as being asked about marriage and childbirth, and whether they are still in the marriage and childbearing stage. Issues such as being able to fully enjoy vacations, or even being offered a salary cut and a job reassignment.

However, the problem of discrimination between men and women in China has not continued to worsen as the article on this official account stated.

Is the unequal treatment that Chinese women receive in the workplace really related to discrimination between men and women?

The reason why bosses treat female employees differently is actually due to the pathological pursuit of profits by some unscrupulous bosses.

In their eyes, the reason why female employees are worse than male employees is not because of gender itself, but because of menstruation, maternity leave, and the legal constraints that come with gender.

The law gives women the right to take maternity leave, but some bosses are unwilling to let their employees get off work on time, so how can they be willing to let female employees take a few months of paid leave?

In order to extract more profits and further reduce labor costs, not hiring employees or reducing the wages of female employees as much as possible has become the best choice.

There is no essential difference between unscrupulous bosses discriminating against female employees and forcing employees to work 996. In the eyes of these bosses, employees do not distinguish between men and women. If one day the law gives men the right to take more vacations, Male employees experience similar employment discrimination.

If women in the workplace want to solve their own difficulties, they might as well call for the maternity leave to be adjusted to the same length for men and women. Everyone enjoys the same discrimination. This problem can at least be alleviated to a certain extent.

The country has also been paying attention to and trying to solve the problem of discrimination between men and women.

From March 1, 2021, the "Online Recruitment Service Management Regulations" will be officially implemented. The regulations clearly state that when providing online recruitment information, employers shall not publish information that contains racial, gender, religious, etc. discrimination. Sexual content. It also stipulates that human resources agencies are also prohibited from divulging private personal information they collect.

Although the implementation of this regulation cannot completely eliminate the problem of implicit discrimination encountered when applying for jobs now, it at least pushes discrimination into a corner where the public cannot see it, making employers afraid to show it openly. Discriminate against women.

The problem of discrimination between men and women in our country has lasted for thousands of years and is deeply integrated into the traditional concepts of the Chinese people.

The change of this deep-rooted concept requires the subtle influence of the law. With these legal endorsements, the concept of equal rights between men and women will have legal support, which is very helpful in improving the current situation of discrimination between men and women.

Equality between men and women needs to be improved step by step in a down-to-earth manner, rather than raising a big banner and pulling out some unfounded opinions to attract the public's attention. To solve the problem, seeking truth from facts is essential.