AS the Government prepares its Green Paper on women's rights for public consultation later this year, it would be comforting to assume it is genuinely looking for the most sensitive but effective ways of emancipating women from their traditionally undervalued and subservient position. Such an attempt, if such it is, would be welcome. At a time when Hongkong is taking its place as one of the most dynamic and developed economies of the late 20th century, the quicker outdated attitudes to women are dragged into the modern era the better. Yet an increasingly vociferous lobby of women's organisations argues the document is no more than a delaying tactic, aimed at looking after the interests of a small, but powerful minority of businessmen who still insist onpaying women less than men for the same work, and refusing them the perks and job security that men rega