It is not a matter of question whether there is or there isn’t gender discrimination in China. There IS! The question is How do we manage gender discrimination in that country?
Tim Leininger and the other person at the Control Risks are PCNs. SOURCE; SHRM publication.
There are thousands of companies, here are some big ones in MN doing business in China. I worked at Ecolab from 1984-1987 – I coordinated conferences worldwide and I met some of the Chinese Managers. (insert picture)
China has experience unprecedented progress in the last 20 years or so…we saw the progress! China is No. 1 place where we send our employees
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For centuries, because of the attitude of Chinese leaders and the male citizens, discrimination against females do exist in China.
The natural images of women are almost fixed in people’s minds like ‘mothers who feed babies’ and ‘wives with aprons.’ And women are often portrayed as ‘gossips, being emotional and being too concerned about tiny things . . . In contrast, men are usually regarded as natural leaders’” (“Pyramid Participation,” n.d.). In In a comparative study of attitudes toward women managers in the United States and China, Jones and Lin (2001) found that American managers were more favorable toward women in management (7.1% in the Chinese sample vis-à-vis 46% in the United States. Despite China’s more enlightened attitude toward women since 1949 when that country embarked on a socialist course, there appears to have been a regression in terms of gender equality even though its economy has become more open since 1979 (Attane, 2006). This conclusion is consistent with Pollert’s (2003, p. 346) finding of “widespread post-communist anti-feminism” where the Gender Development Index of several central and east European countries, most noticeably that of the Czech Republic, fell sharply after the collapse of communism (Tung & Lazarova, 2006).
Good in theory..not in reality. Or may be Mao really meant it. However, the centuries old beliefs of his predeccesors still being followed by the Chinese men.
2005 – 2007 study indicates that only 35-37% of women are employed in professional managerial positions, and that in 2006, women only earned 76 cents for every dollar than men earned. (Lopez-Claros and zahidi, 2005). 1. Here, they studied 80 men and women expatriates and they found that women were more willing to relocate than men, and that women were equally as willing as men to accept destinations with harsh living conditions, such as political and economic instability.
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