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Chinese Tech Companies Post Men-Only Job Listings, Report Finds (theverge.com)
Major Chinese tech companies like Huawei, Alibaba, and Tencent discriminate against women in their online job listings, a new report from Human Rights Watch found today. Some job postings directly state they are for men only, while others specify that women must have attractive appearances and even be a certain height. The Verge reports: The Human Rights Watch report reveals gender discrimination amongst major tech companies, as in the rest of Chinese society, is common and widespread. Search engine Baidu listed a job for content reviewers in March 2017 stating that applicants had to be men with the "strong ability to work under pressure, able to work on weekends, holidays and night shifts." The conglomerate Tencent, which owns WeChat, the massive game Honor of Kings, and a majority stake in League of Legends, was found to have posted an ad for a sports content editor in March 2017, stating it was looking for "strong men who are able to work nightshifts."
And Alibaba, despite Jack Ma touting the company's inclusiveness, merited an entire case study from the Human Rights Watch report. The report noted the e-commerce giant came under fire in 2015 for posting a job ad on its site for a "computer programmer's motivator" seeking women applicants with physical characteristics like Japanese adult film star Sola Aoi. Alibaba removed the reference to Sola Aoi after media reported on it, but kept the ad on the site. As recently as January this year, Alibaba still mentioned "men preferred" in job listings for "restaurant operations support specialist" positions. 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.
And Alibaba, despite Jack Ma touting the company's inclusiveness, merited an entire case study from the Human Rights Watch report. The report noted the e-commerce giant came under fire in 2015 for posting a job ad on its site for a "computer programmer's motivator" seeking women applicants with physical characteristics like Japanese adult film star Sola Aoi. Alibaba removed the reference to Sola Aoi after media reported on it, but kept the ad on the site. As recently as January this year, Alibaba still mentioned "men preferred" in job listings for "restaurant operations support specialist" positions. 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.
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.
That's crazy talk; no way do men like being surrounded by beautiful women!
Because nobody wants to look at guys with hugs boobs?
We used to have a Bill of Rights. Now, with the rights gone, all we have left is the bill.
almost nobody.
SJW n. One who posts facts.
I like how you invented a quote them claimed that some anonymous activist said it. I guess the activist had to be anonymous otherwise it's be even more obvious you made it up.
So you're saying that this is the diversity you had in mind?
This precise conversation got me a disciplinary note as a student in the late 1980s at the University of MN Twin Cities - I was in an anthropology class where the professor and 8? other classmates were women. I was the only man.
We studied primitive cultures where the professor refused to condemn cannibalism (!) on the basis that it was unreasonable to judge their culture by our western, white standards.
Later, when we studied female-liberation issues across south Asia and South Africa, I asked your same question - by insisting on the equality of women, aren't we just being cultural imperialists?
I was not simply ignored, I was flat-out attacked by the professor and fellow-travelers for being regressive, patriarchal, and suggested that perhaps I should look for another class. (I ended up getting a complaint note in my file from the prof...I didn't even know there WERE such stupid things at the University level?)
But...well, I confess as a younger man, I was much more confrontational and interested in "energetic" debate, so I stayed in the class for the rest of the quarter. Every session I bothered to make a comment, I was either met with stone-cold silence or was the focus for attacks.
I probably enjoyed it way too much.
-Styopa