Woman wins equality lawsuit
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A WOMAN yesterday won a sex discrimination case against a catering college in east China, after her application for a clerical post was rejected as it only wanted male staff.
Xihu District People’s Court in Hangzhou City, Zhejiang Province, said the catering college had violated the woman’s rights to equal employment and should pay her 2,000 yuan (US$323) in compensation.
Guo Jing, a college graduate, took Dongfang Cooking Training School in Hangzhou to court after it rejected her job application in late June on the basis that “the school only wants male employees.”
Guo said she met all the school’s requirements for the clerical post.
“We cannot keep silent any more,” she said.
This is the second such case that has created a storm in the country.
Two years ago, a woman named Cao Ju sued a company for sexual discrimination and won.
Cao was compensated 30,000 yuan in what has been called “China’s first employment gender discrimination case.”
A report from the All-China Women’s Federation in 2011 showed that 56.7 percent of female college graduates interviewed said they had fewer opportunities than their male counterparts.
Ninety-one percent of interviewees felt they had been victims of sexual discrimination from employers.
“Sexual discrimination is very common in the job market,” Guo said.
“I want to tell women to protect our rights through established legal weapons,” she added.
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