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Integrated Humanities Student Initiated Assignment (SIA) Report Background of Case Definition of gender discrimination In this paper, gender discrimination is to be understood as the treatment based on the sexual identity in relation to society and culture rather than individual merit, practicing partiality over a certain group. (Answers Corporation, 2006) Gender discrimination in Shanghai, China For women in China, the world is not a fair place. While it is undeniable that females has gained social, economic and political rights since 1949, China's rapid and massive transformation seems to be repelling Chinese women backwards rather than forwards. This trend can be seen even in China's most globalised city, Shanghai. As aptly said by Liu Bohong, the vice director of the women studies institute under the All-China Women's Federation, "Gender inequality is everywhere: from selective abortions to employers' preferences for male graduates." This can be shown through the employment rates of female and male graduates in Shanghai. Employment is...

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