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"[Chinese] Tech companies also often tout the attractive women they’ve hired as incentives for more men to come on board, according to the HRW report. Both Tenc
by chaostheory 9y ago
"[Chinese] Tech companies also often tout the attractive women they’ve hired as incentives for more men to come on board, according to the HRW report. Both Tencent and Baidu were noted to have posted to their social media accounts interviews with male employees who cited having beautiful women around them as an incentive for working there"
https://www.theverge.com/2018/4/23/17272620/chinese-tech-companies-alibaba-tencent-baidu-gender-discrimination https://www.theverge.com/2018/4/23/17272620/chinese-tech-com...
Let's not forget the gender pay gap, which imo is the main culprit
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0147596713000978 https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S014759671...
"In contrast to the United States and European countries, China has witnessed a widening gender pay gap in the past two decades."
China is a still a very patriarchal society. Much more so than the US or EU.