New "Iron Girls". China returns to the use of female labor as in MAO

Entrepreneur Chzan Jianli always hired exclusively men to his construction sites in internal Mongolia, and even wrote in advertisements on the Internet: “I ask you not to call women.” However, now, when there are many orders, and there are not enough workers, he has changed his attitude to the weak sex.

Now Chzan is taking women for work. For unskilled work, for example, the carrying of bricks and boards, he pays them about 160 yuan ($ 25) per day, which is approximately 20% less than the men receive for the same work. For more hard work, women from Chzan Jianley get up to 200 yuan.

“They work hard and complain little,” Chzan praises their new workers and adds that the main contingent is women from 40 to 50 years old.

Chinese women are increasingly working in hard work in construction, transport and other sectors of the economy, where representatives of the stronger sex have always dominated. The main, but, of course, far from the only reason for women on the labor market is a shortage of labor, caused by low birth rate and rapid aging of the population. Lack of workers forces entrepreneurs to take more and more a representative of the weaker sex to build skyscrapers, bypassing railway tracks, driving multi -ton trucks and other heavy and typically male work.

These women, which make up about a third of 286 million rural workers who are not engaged in agriculture, are another evidence of large demographic changes in China. Most attracted by employers the opportunity to pay them much less than men.

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