Recently, there is such a news - Ms. Wang in Changsha was dismissed by the company because of pregnancy, and after consulting with the company, the person in charge of the company was extremely uncooperative, threatening not to know that Ms. Wang was pregnant, and she knew that she could not stay, so that Ms. Wang herself took the legal route to defend her rights.
It is not uncommon for women to experience gender discrimination in the workplace, and to face differential treatment in employment and promotion. Some npc deputies proposed: It is proposed to increase male paternity leave and improve discrimination in marriage and childbearing in the workplace.
I have the following views on this issue:
Today's Chinese women have a high degree of participation in the workplace, working women in the family they are wives, mothers, husbands and children is the obligation; in the enterprise they are employees, leaders, dedication is the responsibility, but also need to carry out their own career planning.
Obligations to be kept, responsibilities to be borne, the future to take care of, the balance of family and career has indeed become a major issue for women in the contemporary workplace, and it is also the main reason why women encounter workplace discrimination.
Increasing male paternity leave can improve men's participation in childcare and reduce women's reproductive pressure, while the gender difference caused by maternity leave will be correspondingly reduced, which will help reduce women's workplace discrimination.
But we should also see that companies are reluctant to recruit women, in addition to the impact of pregnancy, maternity leave and lactation on work, the main concern is that women will shift their focus to the family after giving birth. Having children is temporary, but raising children is long-term and requires long-term investment, which will make employers feel that it is not cost-effective to pay the same cost and recruit women.
Some pregnant women were forcibly dismissed by the company, which also reflects the current protection of the rights and interests of pregnant female employees, there are still deficiencies, the most direct embodiment is that women encounter workplace discrimination after the difficulty of safeguarding their rights, the employer has a fluke of bearing the consequences of infringement, and even has no fear, which has the scene of the company's responsible person directly letting go and letting Ms. Wang take the legal path.
"Women can hold up half of the sky", China's rapid rise in the past 40 years or so, is indispensable to the participation of "female power". Two-thirds of the health workers supporting the fight against the epidemic in Wuhan are women. There are also many women on the front line of poverty alleviation, and pioneers such as Huang Wenxiu have emerged. Therefore, whether from the protection of women's rights and interests, or from the development of social economy, we need to work to eliminate gender discrimination in the workplace.
First of all, a more powerful rights and interests protection system should be used to safeguard the legitimate rights and interests of women, on the one hand, we must improve the rights protection mechanism and reduce the difficulty of rights protection, on the other hand, we must increase the punishment of women who dismiss pregnant women.
Second, it is necessary to explore effective mechanisms to encourage employers to hire more female employees, for example, to give certain policy preferences to enterprises that recruit more female employees, and to make certain compensation through birth subsidies or tax incentives.
Finally, it is necessary to improve the supporting measures for fertility protection, such as increasing the supply of childcare services and reducing the time and energy for women to raise children.