8/26일 타픽 Gender discrimination!!

Employment discrimination against women is still rampant in Korea, with one out of 10 job advertisements violating the law regarding gender equality, according to a government inspection. The Labor Ministry said yesterday that it gave a correction order or a warning to employers after it found 1,176 advertisements were clearly discriminatory against female jobseekers. The authorities monitored a total of 11,918 ads posted on 342 online job portals for a month, beginning on June 18. Companies that do not comply with the order could be fined up to 5 million won. The ads contained either conditions deemed irrelevant to work performance, such as marriage status, appearance, height and other standards fundamentally differing between genders, the ministry said. Around half of the violations involved corporate custom of preferring women for simple accounting or counseling positions, and men for production and sales positions. Less than 1 percent of the infringements were due to differing age limits for male and female applicants, or requirements that applicants be single women or ones who have certain external features. In particular, small and mid-sized businesses with less than 100 workers accounted for nearly 94 percent of the discrimination, compared to a mere 0.6 percent of big-size companies with more than 1,000 workers, according to the survey. The Labor Ministry said smaller firms tend to have a weaker understanding of the law against the recruitment discrimination, adding that it will beef up efforts to reform the biased corporate culture by distributing guidelines on standardized application materials and interviewing procedures. By Ahn Hyo-lim   diffcult words i)rampant (of sth bad); existiong or spreading everywhere in a way that cannot be controlled   ii)infringement; to bereak a law or rule   Questions)   1) Have you ever experienced gender discrimination in company?? Can you discribe what it was?   2) How do you think about attaching a picture on the resume paper??   3) A number of companies are relcutant to work with married women or overwight people. Why are they doing like that??   4)there is a saying "You can not judge a book by its cover."   the saying can be 100% correct in our society?   5) There are many people who have plastic operation for getting a job. Do you think it is positive for them??   6)If you get gender discrimination from your company or school, how would you overcome the situation??     토픽이 올라오지 않아 제가 올립니다. 약간은 무거울 수도 있고 사회적 이슈가 되고 있는 이야기거리라 생각합니다. 꼭 읽어 오시고 즐거운 free taking & debating 해요~