The state of the first post-Equal Employment Opportunities Law and results and problems of the Personal Management

本报告概述了三年来对《平等机会法》颁布后第一批雇员的工作条件和人事管理中出现的问题进行调查的结果，其中最重要的是，女性的显著特点是生育。我们希望能够报告，确保养育子女所需的支助系统已经完全到位，但是，我们的调查显示，工作、育儿和家庭生活之间的平衡现状，婚姻、生育和育儿实际上是继续工作的障碍。我们在调查中获得的数据提供了有关继续工作的重要信息。其中最重要的是真正促进性别平等，以及整个社会与公司之间的认识差距给女工带来的负担，大多数女工继续工作的原因不是经济原因，而是自我成长、生活质量和与社会的联系。在许多公司中，男女晋升之间存在差距，但数据显示，大多数女性员工满足于在目前的职位上工作。然而，仍有相当一部分女性雇员希望获得晋升和检验自己能力的机会，我们再次注意到人际关系的复杂性和缺乏对职业妇女的社会支持。公司在提供这种支持方面的作用是显而易见的，但要真正实现这一点，就需要整个社会参与婚姻、生育和儿童保育领域的工作。以及为女性提供展示其真正能力的机会的措施。为了在这些领域取得进展，需要对社会和公司的态度进行改革。

This report is an outline of the results of investigation over a period of three years into the working conditions of the first post-Equal Opportunities Law employees and issues arising in personnel management.Above all, the distinguishing characteristic of females is childbirth. We would like to be able to report that the support systems necessary to ensure the bringing up of children are perfectly in place, however, our investigations reveal the actuality of balancing work, child care and family life.Marriage, birth and child care are actually obstacles to the continuation of work. Data obtained in our investigations provides important information relating to the continuation of work. Foremost amongst these is the genuine promotion of sexuality equality and the burden imposed on female workers by the gaps in awareness between society as a whole and corporations.Rather than economic reasons, most female workers continue to work for reasons of self-growth, quality of life and connection to society. Within many corporations, a disparity between the promotion of men and women exists, but the data shows most female employees content to work at their current positions. However, there exists a significant minority of female employees hoping for promotion and the opportunity to test their abilities.Again, we note the complexity of human relations and the lack of societal support for working women. Companies have an obvious role in providing this support but an actual realization requires the participation of society as a whole in the areas of marriage, birth and child care.For example, individual or family circumstances need to be considered, along with measures for the creation of a non-discriminatory workplace, measures to open up the assessment of employee performance, and measures which offer females the opportunity to display their true abilities. In order to make progress in these areas a reform in the attitudes of society and companies is called for.