Companies must be encouraged to hire more women

A FEMALE PHD STUDENT from China Communication University in Beijing complained of gender discrimination after attending a job fair. China Youth Daily commented on Wednesday:

Companies will not sacrifice their profits, so the more the government promotes extending maternity leave and other benefits to encourage more women to have babies, the more businesses will resort to an "invisible threshold" in their recruitment.

As a result, State-owned enterprises or government institutions find female graduates flooding to take their entry examinations and interviews. It has long been the case that the number of female civil servants surpasses the number of male ones.