A Chinese woman has won a sexual discrimination case against a cooking training school for rejecting her job application on the ground that she is a woman, becoming second such case to create a storm in the country.
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 (USD 323) in compensation.
Guo Jing, a 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" in late June.
Guo said she met all the school's requirements for the clerical post. "We cannot keep silent any more," she said.
This is the second such case that has created a storm in the country.
Two years ago, a woman named Cao Ju sued a company individually for sexual discrimination and won.
Cao was compensated 30,000 yuan in what has been called "China's first employment gender discrimination case," state- run Xinhua News Agency reported.
A report from the All-China Women's Federation in 2011 showed that 56.7 per cent of interviewed female college graduates said they had fewer opportunities than their male counterparts.
Ninety-one per cent of interviewees felt they had been victims of sexual discrimination from employers.
"Sexual discrimination is very common in the job market. I want to tell women to protect our rights through established legal weapons," Guo said.
