Widespread gender discrimination in the job search of college graduates

Analysis of the causes of gender discrimination in the employment of college graduates

(I) Social causes

1. The traditional concept of gender difference ideas. Gender is one of the criteria for employment selection, but traditional Chinese ethics lead people to develop a deep-rooted concept of male superiority and female inferiority.

Peake. Shortage of jobs. As a result of the transition period, state-owned enterprises, institutions and organizations are facing a large number of people laid off and transferred. The reality that supply exceeds demand in the labor market provides conditions for employers to artificially raise the employment threshold and set gender restrictions.

3. Employers' narrow costing of labor. Under the conditions of market economy, employers pay much attention to the costing of inputs and outputs in order to pursue urgent profits. According to the calculations of some enterprises, hiring female college students will require higher labor costs than hiring men.

4. The deviation of university education. There is a lack of systematic and standardized gender education in higher education.

5. Lack of supervision and management in the labor market. China's legal provisions on women's equal employment rights should play a positive role in correcting the problem of gender discrimination in job hunting, but the reality is not optimistic, and equality in law does not mean equality in reality.

(2) Female college students' own reasons

1. Female physiological vulnerability. Gender differences between men and women will inevitably lead to biological differences between the two sexes, some of these differences in the choice of employment issues does determine the choice of work appropriate or not.

2. The psychology of female college students' employment and their attitudes towards discrimination. The current employment psychology of female college students affects their employment, and female college students respond negatively to gender discrimination in employment.

3. Female college students' specialties and employment preferences have resulted in a narrow range of employment. Female college students mostly choose teacher training, foreign languages, finance and economics and other humanities fields or specialties, not only to face the competition among girls, but also to fight against male students, objectively affecting the employment of female college students.

4. There is a gap between the ability of female college students and the market demand.

Three, female college students employment of gender discrimination countermeasures

(a) change the traditional gender concepts, to establish a sense of equality

eliminate the traditional culture of women's inherent "role" stereotypes, advocate the advanced gender culture, to promote the establishment of equality between men and women. The social atmosphere of the society is to promote the establishment of equality between men and women, and eliminate gender discrimination against women from the root of ideology, so as to create a favorable social atmosphere for the maintenance of the equal employment rights of female college students. In terms of media publicity, eliminate publicity with gender discrimination and bad gender orientation, and increase the publicity of successful women

Meanwhile, gender education

Education is a kind of lifelong education, and it should help people to set up a new social gender concept of gender equality and ****same development from childhood. Employers should correct gender discriminatory practices and change their concepts so that men and women can compete fairly in the face of the same standards of competence.

(ii) Improving the legal system and social security system for the protection of women's rights and interests

The government should create a legal environment and a social system guaranteeing fair employment for female university students through the formulation of positive public **** policies to regulate the degree of equal opportunity and fairness in employment. The legislature should strengthen legislation and introduce laws and regulations that are operational. In terms of the social security system, the most important thing is to recognize the social value of childbirth, to establish a new concept of childbirth is an important project related to the national economy and people's livelihood, to provide the necessary protection for the realization of the equal employment rights of female college students.

(C) Strengthening employment guidance for female college students

On the one hand, differential education is being implemented to address the phenomenon of discrimination against female college students in employment. On the other hand, colleges and universities should accelerate the construction and improvement of job-seeking skills and employment mentality training. Colleges and universities should actively carry out entrepreneurship guidance services and increase the proportion of entrepreneurship content in the employment guidance course system. Female college students with entrepreneurial aspirations and conditions should be actively supported.

(D) Enhance the comprehensive quality of female college students

Female college students must fully understand their own characteristics, clear their strengths and weaknesses, and in the process of job-seeking and choosing a job to avoid the shortcomings and give play to their own strengths. Maximize their own enrichment, make up for their own defects.