The plight of working mothers is under the spotlight after a campaigner claimed bosses were ignoring legislation by sacking women returning from maternity leave, and a high-flying executive said she owed her success to domestic helpers.
Sally Choi Wing-sze, chairwoman of the Association for the Advancement of Feminism, said bosses were ignoring equal-rights legislation.
'Companies will often assign drastically different tasks when a woman returns from maternity leave so that she will make mistakes and give her employers a reason to let her go,' she said.
She added that the prohibitive cost of pursuing these cases meant employers were escaping liability.
Meanwhile, Dr Edith Mok Kwan Ngan-hing spoke of how she would never have made it in the tough world of business without hiring a domestic worker to care for her two children while she flew back and forth across the Pacific for work.
The decision that she 'couldn't survive babysitting' saw her become the first woman in a top post at the Dow Chemical Company.