A Womans Dilemma

It is stipulated in the Law on Protection of Women's Rights and Interests that employers cannot fire female employees because of marriage, pregnancy, maternity leave or breastfeeding, and the Labor Contract Law also has similar prohibitions. However, many employers evade these stipulations by forcing female employees out of the workplace. In some cases, pregnant women have been demoted and eventually pushed into quitting.

China's incomplete social security system and a lack of social responsibility on the part of many employers are the roots of the problem, according to Ye Jingyi, a professor at the Law School of Peking University.

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At present, 60 percent of companies have participated in China's birth insurance scheme for paying employers' birth-related medical fees. Xia proposed that the government make birth insurance coverage compulsory for employers and make insurance participation an important factor in certain assessments of employers, such as corporate social responsibility, or a standard for rewards and punishment. Both Song and Xia called for greater social consciousness of the fact that women give birth to babies not for themselves but for society to make progress through reproduction of labor power.

Yet, overprotection of women's rights could scare employers and force them to plan evasions, thus affecting stable employment for women, said Ye.

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November 10, NO. Whether to become a mother is a tough question facing many women in China, amid increasing gender discrimination in the workplace. But, though much progress has been made toward that goal, some things have barely changed in decades. LIFE magazine devoted a lengthy story to the "American woman's dilemma," and the details of that dilemma are problems still faced today.

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The sub-headline just about summed it up: Should she go on working? Will housework bore her? What will she do when her children are grown? In , with the post-war United States awash in considerations of how women ought best to spend their lives, LIFE profiled how a selection of American women had answered that question.

How the Conversation About Women 'Having It All' Played Out 70 Years Ago

A generation before, the story noted, the women in the story would likely have been happy — or at least put on happy faces — about seeing marriage as a "complete future. Many more professional avenues are available to American women today than were in the past, but the basics of this year-old story will still ring true for many. The full-time workers, at least those who could afford to have a choice in the matter, had to earn enough to cover childcare costs. Those who stayed home full-time were faced with an uncertain future if they planned to return to the workforce later, though by LIFE's count U.