Women take a half of every national labor force. Sometimes, they also become the pillar of the family, from earning money to taking care of the family. However, according to survey from Vietnam Manpower, sexism still exists in recruiting as well as working condition
Specifically, 20% of job descriptions in 4 biggest career websites ask candidates their gender, in which only 30% requires female workers. Simultaneously, in a research with employers, when makes a hiring decision, beside educational degree and work experience, 2/3 of them usually ask interviewees extra hours working ability, marital status and give priority for males.
Moreover, women have to face more and more challenges when ushers in “be a mother” stage. It showed that more than 60% of mothers decide to change their career path for their child and 37% have intention of seeking a stable job even it doesn’t have promotion chances like previous. But only 19% of them could receive a flexible working hours from recruiters.
Median weekly earnings of full-time wage and salary workers, by sex, race, and ethnicity, U.S. 2009
The foreseen disadvantages
The discrimination in job descriptions will become an invisible wall which leads to unequal workers distribution and affect to the ability to receive a maximum return from newly hired workers even they are women or men.
In Vietnam or other countries, women usually are person who control family budget, make the financial decisions. They are the pivotal customers and consumers of entrepreneurs. So, attention of women and men is necessary in every company’s decision
Vietnam Manpower warns that discrimination between men and women in Vietnam or other country in general has a deep social root. In our viewpoint, to help shorten the gender gap in the workplace as well as beneficial for businesses, it is needed to make specific rules to prohibit acts of discrimination based on gender, which the first is job advertisements
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