The Chinese government has outlined plans to enforce current laws against gender discrimination in the workplace. The notice’s focus is to better define what constitutes “gender discrimination” in employment practices, a practice that is technically enshrined in the Chinese constitution, but is vaguely defined and poorly enforced. Specifically, the notice forbids employers and recruiters from asking about a woman’s marital or childbearing status; restricting births as a condition of employment; or asking a woman to take a pregnancy test as a condition of hiring.
