Women in the Chinese Workplace
This site is intended to be used by instructors to teach students about issues women face in the workplace. Since urban women and rural women have very different challenges that they have to confront in the workplace and related to employment, we have provided individual tabs and teaching materials for each. Rural women have to face issues such as lack of legal rights because they generally migrate to cities to find work, lack of education or skills, fewer job opportunities, lower pay then women who were born in the city, forced overtime in sweatshops,using all of their youthful engergy and beauty working in inhumane condititions in sweatshops, being forced into prostitution because of their low standing in society, class discrinimation and discrimination as they face traditional values and oppression at home. Urban women are more likely to be forced to retire earlier than their male counterparts, be hired based on what they look like, may feel compelled to get plastic surgery in order to have more job opportunities,face sexual harassment at work, be paid lower than their male counterparts and be pressured to maintain a near impossible standard of beauty. We present this information in an easy to digest way and have provided a lesson plan that instructors can follow to help their students digest the information provided and learn to think critically about the issues presented. We hope to inform people about the struggles of women in China. Feel free to comment on our blog and email us with questions or thoughts on how we can improve the site! Thank you!
This site is intended to be used by instructors to teach students about issues women face in the workplace. Since urban women and rural women have very different challenges that they have to confront in the workplace and related to employment, we have provided individual tabs and teaching materials for each. Rural women have to face issues such as lack of legal rights because they generally migrate to cities to find work, lack of education or skills, fewer job opportunities, lower pay then women who were born in the city, forced overtime in sweatshops,using all of their youthful engergy and beauty working in inhumane condititions in sweatshops, being forced into prostitution because of their low standing in society, class discrinimation and discrimination as they face traditional values and oppression at home. Urban women are more likely to be forced to retire earlier than their male counterparts, be hired based on what they look like, may feel compelled to get plastic surgery in order to have more job opportunities,face sexual harassment at work, be paid lower than their male counterparts and be pressured to maintain a near impossible standard of beauty. We present this information in an easy to digest way and have provided a lesson plan that instructors can follow to help their students digest the information provided and learn to think critically about the issues presented. We hope to inform people about the struggles of women in China. Feel free to comment on our blog and email us with questions or thoughts on how we can improve the site! Thank you!
By Joe Symanski
Jane Fleck
Juanita Flessas
BIS 402 Modern China
Spring 2010
Image of female doctor:www.life.com/image/2215656
Image of rural female worker:jennakirkman.wordpress.com/
