Jobs for the girls run out
More women workers in Guangzhou have been sacked as reforms of state enterprises are stepped up.
And a Guangzhou city government official warned yesterday unemployment among the city's women would increase further.
Jiang Yun, deputy head of the city's Labour Bureau, said: 'The situation with female workers made redundant by their employers is very serious indeed and it's going to get worse.' Figures for the first half of the year showed more than 86,000 people in the city, 2.4 per cent of the workforce, were out of a job. Of these, 59 per cent were women.
Out of the total number of unemployed, at least half had been out of work for more than six months, and of these 58 per cent were women.
Ms Jiang said employers must give local workers priority when recruiting.
In the past month, Guangzhou has auctioned off two state-owned enterprises, with hundreds of workers losing their jobs. Officials said yesterday more state firms would be sold this year.
