China News Service, Kunming, June 11 (Reporter Miao Chao) The portal website of the Yunnan Provincial Government released the "Yunnan Women's Development Plan (2021-2030)" (hereinafter referred to as the "Plan") on the evening of the 10th, proposing that equal employment will be promoted in the next few years. Expand the field of women's employment, eliminate gender discrimination in employment, ensure that women receive fair labor remuneration, and significantly reduce the income gap between men and women.

　　For a long time, women from all walks of life and on all fronts in Yunnan have actively participated in the trend of reform, opening up and modernization, and have devoted themselves to the great practice of building a moderately prosperous society in an all-round way. , Disaster prevention and relief front line to contribute women's strength.

　　According to the "Planning", with the high-quality economic and social development and the deepening of reform and opening up, the problem of unbalanced and insufficient development of women in Yunnan is still prominent, and the level of women's social security has not yet met their health needs. The level of health care is relatively low; the educational level of women between urban and rural areas and between regions is significantly different; women’s entrepreneurship and employment face many challenges; there is still a gap in the level of women’s participation in decision-making and management; the development environment for women needs to be further optimized; The implementation of equal rights in various aspects still faces practical difficulties.

There is a long way to go to promote the all-round development of women and achieve gender equality.

　　In order to promote the all-round development of women and achieve equality between men and women, the Plan proposes a number of measures.

One of them is to intensify efforts to eliminate gender discrimination in employment. It is necessary to implement laws, regulations and policies to eliminate gender discrimination in employment, and to create a gender-equal employment mechanism and market environment.

Employers are prohibited from discriminating on the basis of gender in recruitment, hiring, promotion, and dismissal.

Party and government organs, state-owned enterprises and institutions are required to play an exemplary and leading role in the recruitment (employment) of personnel, promotion and promotion, and evaluation of professional and technical titles.

The picture shows women working in a modern planting enterprise in Yunnan (data map).

Photo by Miao Chao

　　In addition, Yunnan will actively promote women's employment and entrepreneurship.

The "Planning" shows that Yunnan should improve the public employment service system, optimize employment services, and promote the connection between people and jobs for women's employment.

Give full play to the role of modern service industries and new forms of employment in absorbing women's employment, and promote women's employment in emerging industries such as the Internet.

We will increase support and help women with employment difficulties to achieve employment through multiple channels.

Implement the Women's Innovation and Entrepreneurship Action, encourage women to actively participate in mass entrepreneurship and innovation, and promote various platforms to support women's entrepreneurship.

Implement the policy of part-time and part-time salary and off-the-job entrepreneurship for scientific researchers, and support female scientific researchers to engage in scientific and technological entrepreneurship.

Develop e-commerce in rural areas, encourage migrant women to return to their hometowns to start businesses, and support willing women to go to the countryside to start businesses.

　　In terms of narrowing the income gap between men and women, the "Plan" proposes to implement equal pay for equal work for men and women to ensure fair income; to promote women's mastery and application of production factors such as knowledge, technology, management, and data, and to improve women's professional competitiveness; to urge employers to formulate and implement gender equality Equal human resources strategy, smooth career development and promotion channels for women; explore and carry out salary surveys, strengthen gender-specific income statistics, and dynamically grasp the income status of men and women.

　　In terms of improving the labor safety conditions of female employees, Yunnan has incorporated the labor protection of female employees into the scope of occupational health and work safety supervision and management, and strengthened labor security and labor safety supervision over the labor protection of female employees in employers.

Urge employers to implement their main responsibilities and strengthen special protection for female employees during menstruation, pregnancy, childbirth, lactation, and menopause.

Protect female workers from the harm of toxic and hazardous substances and dangerous production processes at work, and reduce the occurrence of women's occupational diseases.

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