Women employment in colonial Hong Kong
Document Type
Journal article
Source Publication
Journal of Contemporary Asia
Publication Date
1-1-2000
Volume
30
Issue
2
First Page
246
Last Page
264
Abstract
Women's participation in the labour market is on the rise, and employment opportunities available to working women have increased greatly. However, working women in Hong Kong are still disproportionately underrepresented in higher status occupations. Despite general improvement in their educational attainment, women are still unequally paid. Their role in the workplace is still very much constrained and impeded by their familial role. Hong Kong women's continuing subordination in the workplace lies in the domination of the Chinese patriarchal family in industrial Hong Kong. Women experience institutional discrimination insofar as other institutions and the public at large also subscribe to culturally entrenched prejudices and discriminatory practices against women. It appears that women's subordinate status will not change in the foreseeable future.
DOI
10.1080/00472330080000151
Print ISSN
00472336
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Language
English