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Job Requirement

Post by Guest » Sat, 20 Aug 2005 1:31 am

i was looking at some job advertisment and they put down one of their requirements as female working environment? what does this means? they dun hire guy? or what?

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Post by sundaymorningstaple » Sat, 20 Aug 2005 4:13 pm

Anonymous wrote:i was looking at some job advertisment and they put down one of their requirements as female working environment? what does this means? they dun hire guy? or what?
It is the local way to circumvent the gender bias. It's just like saying in ads that they require a mandarin speaker as a way to limit the respondents to Chinese only. As long as MOM will only set guidelines rather than rules you will get employers that flaunt the guidelines that have no teeth.

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