Women employment in colonial Hong Kong

Bibliographic Data

ID3986554
AuthorsWilliam Km Lee (corresponding author)
Year2000
Volume30
Issue2
Pages246-264
Publication date2000-01-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessNo
TypeARTICLE
VenueJournal of Contemporary Asia (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0047-2336 • E-ISSN: 1752-7554
PublisherInforma UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1080/00472330080000151
OpenAlexW2024238954
LanguageEN
Citations received8
References cited4

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

Colonialism · Demographic economics · Economic growth · Economics · Educational attainment · Political science · Sociology · Subordination (linguistics · Gender Studies · Labor Movements and Unions · Law · Social Policy and Reform Studies