China's educational authorities recently announced a ban forbidding employers from setting discriminatory requirements on campus recruitment, including restrictions on gender and ethnicity.
中国教育部门近日宣布，禁止用人单位在校园招聘时设置限定性别和民族等歧视性规定。The Ministry of Education released the notice on its official website on Friday, asking all colleges and universities to improve the work of finding employment for graduates in 2016.
上周五，教育部在官方网站上发布通知，要求各高校提高2016年毕业生就业工作的办事效率。
"Adding conditions like gender, marital status or fertility status into job requirements hurts applicants' rights to equal employment. Although the laws and regulations ban any kind of discriminatory information on recruitment advertisements, employers could still reject female applicants in practice," Zhou Hao, a lawyer from the Beijing-based Jia An Law Office, told the Global Times.
北京佳安律师事务所的周浩律师告诉《环球时报》，“将性别、婚姻状况、生育状况等附加条件纳入求职考核范围，会损害求职者的就业平等权。虽然法律法规禁止任何带歧视性的招聘广告信息，用人单位仍然可以在实际操作时拒绝女性申请者。”
"Gender discrimination is not uncommon in job hunting. It is a harmful tradition for some employers to think that male employees can bring more economic benefits while female employees' work may be interrupted by childbirth," Wang Jiangsong, a professor at China Institute of Industrial Relations, told the Global Times on Sunday.
中国劳动关系学院教授王江松星期日接受《环球时报》采访时说到，“性别歧视在求职中并不鲜见。这是一个不良传统，一些雇主认为男性员工可以带来更多的经济效益，而女性员工的工作可能会因生子而受到干扰。”Wang said that some female prospective workers have little awareness of the discrimination they have to contend with during the job hunt, which makes gender discrimination worse.
王教授说，一些女性求职者对她们在求职过程中不得不面对的歧视知之甚少，这使得性别歧视这一问题更为严重。According to a survey of campus recruitment advertisements posted on job-hunting website between September 2013 and September 2014, 127 advertisements contained obvious gender discrimination, using phrases such as"males only" or "females only," media outlet reported in 2014. Industries like manufacturing, trade, wholesale and retail, IT and real estate showed the most gender discrimination
据新浪网2014年的报道，在调查智联招聘网2013年9月到2014年9月间发布的校园招聘广告里，有127条广告中包含明显的性别歧视，使用“仅限男性”或“仅限女性”的字眼。而制造业、贸易业、批发和零售业，IT业和房地产业在招聘时最具有性别歧视。