Young moms searching for perfect work-life balance

Flexibility, fair play

Guo, Zhaopin's CEO, said it is necessary to improve supervision of the protection of women's working rights, especially fertility rights, while gender discrimination in recruitment should be more strongly regulated to create a fairer job market for women, especially those of childbearing age.

He said companies can introduce more flexible ways of using and managing their human resources to better deal with job vacancies brought about by female employees getting married or giving birth. Also, more care should be given to working mothers — for example, setting up rooms for breastfeeding mothers.

He said society and communities can improve family education for every person to encourage close relatives to join the parenting group as a way of easing the burden on mothers, while it is also important to eliminate gender discrimination to ensure that women receive fairer treatment in the workplace.

"It needs the efforts of authorities, companies and society as a whole to win equal gender treatment. Working women can enjoy real equality as long as the differences in opportunities and rights are eliminated and social awareness of gender discrimination is improved," Guo said.

"Hope and opportunities are there for every single person, and everyone has the right to chase their dream, regardless of gender."

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