On The Legal Protection For Women’s Equal Rights To Employment

Employment an essence of the principle of people’s livelihood，is vital to humansurvival and development. It is a basic way for citizens to achieve self-worth andself-improvement. Besides, it is also a platform for women to obtain financialindependence and to improve themselves to the fullest. Fundamentally, employment isnot only important to people’s livelihood, but is significant to a country’s democracyand the rule of law, and the social justice as well. However, in recent years, with theincreasingly serious conflicts between the labor market supply and demand, theemployment situation is accordingly harsh, bringing tremendous impact on women,which makes the female employment problems more serious. Though our Chinesegovernment has enacted a series of laws and regulations to protect women’s equal rightto get employed, the anticipated legislative effect fails to be realized as expected for theincompleteness of the existing laws and regulations as well as the poor strength offemale individual employees have made it difficult for those whose interests have beendamaged to get adequate remedy from legal channels. Thus, it’s extremely urgent toestablish and complete the legal remedy regulations of women’s equal right to getemployed. Therefore, according to the above mentioned, this thesis takes the equal rightto get employed as the theoretical basis to reveal the internal relationship between thewomen’s employment and the equality theory, and the women’s employment and theenterprises’ free right to employ. By analyzing the current condition of women’semployment in our country, this thesis also tries to seek an effective remedy approach.This thesis is divided into four sections to explore the legal protection for women’sright to employment.The first part is an introduction to the significance and research background ofwomen’s right to employment, to summarize the related domestic and foreign research,and to provide the necessary explanation about the research methods and its logic.The second part firstly defines and analyzes the word “equality”. And based on this,it introduces the connotation of women’s equal right to employment Then it discussesthe necessity of enterprises’ social responsibility and free rights to employ, and thusfurther analyses the relationship between women’s equal right to get employed andenterprises’ free rights to employ. Finally, it combines the legal basis protecting femaleemployment in our country. Through the literary and empirical analysis, the third part describes the currentfemale employment situation, points out the unequal phenomenon of the labor market inour country, and objectively analyzes the reason limiting women to realize the equalright to get employed.The forth part points out the legal countermeasures to promote women’s equal rightto employment. Firstly, the legislative protection for women to employment should beimproved, with the gender equality conception being put into legislation, altogether withthe contents of legislation and maternity insurance system being improved. Secondly,the judicial protection should be strengthened, with the constitutional litigation remedymechanism being established, the functions of labor arbitration committee beingenhanced, the mechanism of public interest litigation being established, and the obscurejudicial channels being solved. Finally, a sound legal supervising mechanism should beimproved to effectively guarantee women’s equal right to employment.