Solutions to Gender Discrimination in Employment

"Formulating a special anti-discrimination law in employment" is considered by experts attending the meeting as a "magic weapon" to solve this difficult problem.

However, for this kind of voice, some enterprise management do not agree. The director of a management talent center in Beijing told reporters: "Judging from the current employment situation in China, legislation is of little significance. It's a buyer's market now. Finding a job is the most important thing, and no one cares about discrimination. "

Wang Wenzhen, a researcher in the Labor Law and Social Security Law Research Office of the Institute of Labor Science, also believes that the best way to curb the invisibility of explicit employment discrimination is to expand employment, because "from a macro perspective, the severe labor market is the soil for employment discrimination, and only by changing the supply and demand situation as a whole can we better improve the employment discrimination problem".

"These understandings are very superficial." Some experts believe that "just because there are few cakes, we should create a fairer and more equal environment, otherwise it will have a potential negative impact on society."

Many experts believe that discrimination is a kind of social prejudice, and it is difficult to eliminate it by the awakening of society itself. Ensuring equal employment opportunities for citizens must be achieved through an effective legal system and specific safeguard and relief measures.

Experts believe that the frequent cases of employment discrimination in society show that the public has a sense of rights, but the relevant laws are lagging behind. "Now is the best time to promote anti-employment discrimination legislation. Promoting anti-employment discrimination legislation will not hinder economic development. "

Xu Weihua, deputy director of the Women's Legal Research and Service Center of Peking University Law School, believes that the forms and scope of discrimination are relatively wide, but at present, discrimination in the employment field in China is the most profound and serious discrimination against women. In recent years, Peking University Women's Legal Research and Service Center has received many reports and complaints in this regard.

At this forum, some experts suggested that if an anti-employment discrimination law can be enacted, the constitutive elements and exemption conditions of gender discrimination should be clearly stipulated in this law, which can provide operable judgment standards for judges to decide cases. At the same time, the burden of proof is reversed, and the employer bears the burden of proof, proving that the reasons for not choosing women are sufficient. It should also clearly stipulate the civil liability, compensation standard and calculation method of expected benefits for indirect losses caused by gender discrimination in employment.

Jiang Yongping, a researcher at the Women's Research Institute of the All-China Women's Federation, proposed that a government intervention mechanism against employment discrimination should be established. Governments at all levels should set up specialized agencies to combat gender discrimination in employment, go deep into various employers and talent recruitment markets, conduct on-site supervision, accept complaints, provide legal advice and assistance services, directly intervene in cases as appropriate, and use public power to eliminate discrimination and promote equal employment.

Jiang Yongping also suggested that a positive affirmative policy should be established to promote gender equality in the labor market. Encourage employers to formulate and implement gender equality plans and programs within enterprises according to problems. In addition to effective supervision, the government should also take measures such as tax reduction and exemption, preferential loans, and extra points for government procurement to restrain and guide employers to actively assume social responsibilities in gender equality.

Cao of Shenzhen Longgang Women's Federation believes that "the cost of childbirth should be borne by the government, not by specific employers." Therefore, a unified national maternity insurance system should be established to ensure the balance of interests of employers when recruiting women by realizing full coverage of maternity insurance.

Cao suggested that we should strengthen the construction of social workers, cultivate and develop non-governmental organizations and eliminate gender discrimination in employment. Through "social workers" leading "volunteers", we will carry out special rights protection services against gender discrimination in employment and public welfare or reciprocal activities to meet women's equal employment needs. In view of the difficulty of female college students' employment, relevant experts believe that colleges and universities should carry out necessary reforms for women, set up majors and disciplines suitable for female college students' employment, give full play to women's unique strengths and advantages, improve their employment competitiveness, guide female college students to establish the concept of independence and give full play to their advantages in job hunting. (According to "Shaanxi Market Herald")