The Sex-Based Discrimination In Employment In The Perspective Of Harmonious Society

The construction of a harmonious socialistic society, is one of our party's most significant duty which is raised under the precondition of forming a comprehensively constructed well-off society, and founding a new era with Chinese-characteristic socialism.. Women are the important strength and necessary condition to construct and impel harmonious society. Employment had great meaning for women. It marks women's liberalization and gender equality. No doubt that with the development of economy, women enjoy much greater political, social, and economic equality today than ever before. But the sex-based discrimination against women is emerging and becoming a social problem. If handled this problem not properly, it will become a bottleneck that constrain harmonious socialistic society development.This paper reviews the domestic and foreign research systematically, meanwhile making the assessment. The paper at the view of social harmonious society, combined with gender theory to study the subject about sex-based discrimination in employment in China. Paper clarified the concept of sex-based discrimination in employment. After reviewing the history of our Party's guidance about female employment, the paper analyzed objectively the status quo of explicit and implicit gender inequality. On the basis, the article explored the institutional and structural factors that lead the sex-based discrimination in employment.The paper thinks the factors that lead to sex-based discrimination in employment including:underdeveloped productive forces, economic transition, political and legal system is not perfect, backward gender culture and modern unhealthy culture, low education, and public opinion and the negative effects of globalization. Accordance to reasons of discrimination, the paper proposed solutions and strategies for sex-based discrimination in employment. In the economic sphere:offering more opportunities for women, improving the social security system, carrying out the gender budget; In the political and legal aspects:strengthening the responsibilities and functions of government, promoting gender mainstreaming, increasing the proportion of women in politics, improving laws and policies to eliminate gender discrimination in women's employment; In cultural and educational aspects:it is necessary to construct advanced gender culture and raise the educational level of women. In the social field: putting women's development objectives into the development goals of a harmonious society, improving the social environment of public opinion, giving full play to the role of women's organizations and enhancing the openness. This article aims to seek out the way of equal employment for women. More important is building harmonious society that is equity, justice, democracy and rule of law.