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12 Nov 2014

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Xinhua (China)

Chinese woman wins sexual-discrimination case

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A Chinese woman won her sexual discrimination case after…court ruled in her favour…Xihu District People's Court in Hangzhou City, Zhejiang Province, said a cooking school had violated the woman's right to equal employment and should pay her 2,000 yuan (about 323 U.S. dollars) in compensation…Guo Jing, a female college graduate, took Dongfang Cooking Training School in Hangzhou to court after it denied her job application on the basis that "the school only wants male employees"…Guo said she met all the school's requirements for the clerical post…A report from the All-China Women's Federation in 2011 showed that 56.7 percent of interviewed female college graduates said they had fewer opportunities than their male counterparts. Ninety-one percent of interviewees felt they had been victims of sexual discrimination from employers…