Male and female discrimination in labor participation in the Chinese industry. A qualitative analysis

Bachelor Thesis from the year 2019 in the subject Business economics - Economic Policy, grade: 83, Xiamen University, course: Thesis, language: English, abstract: The main questions talked in this paper include: Whether there is gender discrimination in labor participation in stateowned and private companies; If the discrimination exists, which types of enterprises have the more distinguish gender gap in labor participation? Is the gender discrimination in labor participantion more distinguish in some specific types of firms? Whether the economic transformation in today's China will narrow or expand the gender wage gap?

To answer these questions, an analysis will be made basing on real firm-level data. The data will include the information about the female employee participation rate in different positions, business type, companies¿ ownerships, firms¿ size and other

variables that will be needed to answer the above question raised by the paper. The paper will try to find out whether female workers suffer gender discrimination in the labor participation in difference types of business by comparing the mean difference for each group of data.

Gender discrimination in labor participation is a global issue. It will hinder the healthy and stable development of the economy and hinder people's equal enjoyment of economic development results. With the economic transformation and development in China, gender discrimination in labor participation become wider. The paper analysis the development history of the

gender discrimination in labor participation in China.

For the analysis methods, the article used descriptive statistics and hypothesis testing.This paper have six chapters, and the main content for each chapter is as following: Describe the background of the thesis topic, raise questions and hypothesis; Introduce Becker¿s discrimination theory, Chinese researchers¿ argument and other researcher¿s attitude not related to the market force; Describe data used in this paper and the analysis method; Data analysis result, from the result, the paper got the conclusion that there is gender discrimination in labor participant in China. Gender discrimination has potential relationship with type of firms; Discussion the result and got the conclusion; Find the reason to the gender discrimination in labor participant and give the recommendation to anti gender discrimination in labor participant from society, government and personal respectively.