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标 题: Nation vows to get laid-off women employed(转载)
发信站: 哈工大紫丁香 (2003年04月26日11:03:21 星期六), 站内信件
【 以下文字转载自 NewsEnglish 讨论区 】
【 原文由 ningning 所发表 】
The All-China Women's Federation said Tuesday it will help train and employ
more than 6 million laid-off women by 2005 and most of them should find an i
ncome by serving in the community.
Gu Xiulian, vice-president of the federation, told a national conference the
re were 80,000 community-based service providers in China, which is expected
to expand further in the near future.
All the providers were set up by or with the help of the women's federation
at different levels.
"As many as 40 per cent of the laid-off women who have found jobs again are
working in their communities,'' Gu said.
China's registered urban unemployment rate reached 4 per cent last year, wit
h more than half being women.
Against a backdrop of supply outstripping demand in the country's job market
, women are in a disadvantageous position as a whole.
Statistics from the national women's federation indicate the employment rate
of women aged between 18 and 49 has decreased by 16.2 percentage points bet
ween 1990 and last year.
Although community services such as household cleaning and baby-sitting were
the choice of most laid-off women workers, who may be considered too old or
without the skills necessary for other employment, it took the federation t
o persuade them to get involved.
And the effort of the federation has paid off with more laid-off women agree
ing to serve in the community.
One example is Xiao Rendong, who was a former worker with the Harbin Steel R
olling Mill in Northeast China's Heilongjiang Province.
Xiao lost her job with her husband in 1996 after working at the mill for nea
rly 20 years.
"Thinking of myself working at other people's homes and obeying other people
's orders was unbearable to me at first,'' Xiao said.
But she considers herself lucky she eventually took the "brave first step''
after advice from her local women's federation, which opened the door.
Xiao is now one of the busiest workers in Harbin, earning not only satisfact
ory money, but respect with honest labour.
Gu said the national federation will now spread the mechanism that has helpe
d Xiao through more lectures, more hotlines and more personal consultations.
It will also step up its occupational training this year, especially in rela
tion to community services, while launching a national network in major citi
es to disseminate employment information among laid-off women.
This is the way it hopes to help train and employ more than 6 million laid-o
ff women in the next two years.
Women's federations should also provide more loans for qualified laid-off wo
men to start their own businesses.
Tuesday, Vice-Premier Wu Bangguo urged women's federations at various levels
to help more women get involved with the development of the country's marke
t economy and again find their position in society.
Providing more jobs and re-employing more laid-off workers are among major t
asks of governments and women federations at all levels, Wu said
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