Gender Inequality in Employment and Workplace in China Between 2010 and 2020

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10.2991/978-2-38476-509-6_68How to use a DOI?

Keywords

Gender Inequality; Employment; Chinese Female

Abstract

Between the years 2010 and 2020, Chinese females’ working environment experienced a transformation, symbolizing trends and dominant inequalities. Compared to 2010, the decade records limited progress for women's entry into formal labor markets, with entrenched issues remaining particularly in managerial and high-skilled positions. This research demonstrates how business practice and national policy are enforcing gender equal work and uncovers critical mismatches between policy intent and real impact. It discovers that these problems must be addressed with complete solutions that adopt legal change, organizational culture adaptation, and enabling social welfare. The paper reveals that superficial progress in women’s work participation hides a more deep-seated set of disadvantages, many of which operate silently through workplace culture and institutional design. Addressing gender inequality in the workplace thus requires more than increasing access or legislating protective policies. It requires structural transformation: redeploying expectations of performance, scaling inclusive leadership models, disrupting informal exclusionary networks, and recasting care responsibilities as public instead of individual.

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TY  - CONF
AU  - Lang Song
PY  - 2025
DA  - 2025/12/15
TI  - Gender Inequality in Employment and Workplace in China Between 2010 and 2020
BT  - Proceedings of the 2025 International Conference on Mental Growth and Human Resilience (MGHR 2025)
PB  - Atlantis Press
SP  - 625
EP  - 630
SN  - 2352-5398
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DO  - 10.2991/978-2-38476-509-6_68
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