On Legal System Of Gender Equality In Employment

Inequality in employment is a serious problem for women nowadays. The fact that the women college students often meet a higher than usual difficulties in seeking job positions fully illustrates this issue and presents a serious challenge. Surveys show that a lot of employers prefer employing men students to employing women students, although women's abilities are not secondary to men. Some employers even defy the law by declaring in want advertisements that men are wanted only. In addition, the unfair treatment against women in employment situation reflects in terms of income, promotion opportunities and professional training. However, the victims in sex discrimination cannot obtain adequate relief in legal proceedings. There is almost no one successful suit in China heretofore, which shows the limitation in the law of gender equality in employment.Sex discrimination in employment not only has significant influence upon job female applicants, but also arouses a growing public concern. Consequently, the side effects resulting from this social problem not only bring trouble to biased job applicants, but have a negative effect on the entire society, as people's viewpoints toward equality and law have been considerably affected, leading to a much slowed social harmony process. Targeting at solving this serious social problem, this article aims to analyze the situation in the job market and to do some comparative research on the law of gender equality in the western countries and Hong Kong and Taiwan. With the reference to the legal systems in these countries and areas and based on the international labor standards, this article is trying to build a legal framework of gender equality in employment, which guarantees legal equality in employment for men and women alike.