A discount offer from a telecommunications company in Hong Kong on Valentine's Day sparked a scathing appeal by gender advocates for offering a discount on laptops for men.
And on vacuum cleaners and kitchen supplies for women. HKT apologized after the offer this week to HSBC raised the wrath of bank employees who saw it as gender-discriminatory.
A source who presented the pictures to Reuters said HSBC employees in Hong Kong and London had strongly criticized the offer because, in their opinion, it promoted gender discrimination. On the pages of the show, decorated with pink hearts, Laptops, cameras and wireless headsets, while the women's offers section included five different types of vacuum cleaners, a kitchen mixer and a tap for the kitchen.