6.
and
men
While relatively more women were engaged in clerical secretarial jobs and as manufacturing operatives, more were engaged in supervisory, professional and technical
Nevertheless, the percentage of women
engaged in
jobs. supervisory, professional and technical jobs has increased considerably during the last decade,
For example, the percentage of women employed as managers and administrators increased from 0.8% of the female working population in 1981 to 2.8% in 1991. The percentage of women professionals and associate professionals also increased from 6.7% to 15% in. the same period.
7.
There is some evidence of sex differentiation in the recruitment process, mainly manifested in job advertisements offering employment to men or women only. Some women's groups have cited individual cases Of discrimination in fringe benefits and promotion. prospects. The scale of sex discrimination is very difficult to. ascertain since many factors including judgemental ones (e.g. differences in the distribution of
male and female employment by occupation and industry, differences in qualifications, experience and productivity, etc.) could give rise to differences in Thus, it was considered that a sample survey would be unlikely to produce conclusive results.
treatment.
3.
to
Government about
The relatively nartow income differential between men and women, the small number of specific complaints made sex discrimination and the small proportion of Female workers who perceived themselves as victims of discrimination in wages, fringe benefits and promotion opportunity in several surveys conducted within the last decade, all indicate that the problem is not serious, in: Hong Kong. As the labour market is tight and there are few impediments to mobility of labour, there is little scope for employers to adopt discriminatory employment unrelated to the work capacity of the employees.
practices
Government Employment Policies
9.
The Civil Service adopts a policy of equal treatment of male and female employees. A few departments, however, have traditionally not recruited women for certain grades. The departments concerned' have agreed to change their recruitment policies and give equal opportunities to female applicants.