Gender inequality in Chinese Civil Service System: Dilemma Faced by the Female in the VUCA world

Abstract

The role and socio-economic status of women in the public/private sphere are deeply influenced by a country’s historical, political, economic, and social policy development. In today’s VUCA era, the pattern of gender inequality still highlights women’s disadvantages in education, employment, social security treatment, and political participation. In such a volatile, uncertain, complex, and ambiguous era, Asian women prefer the relative stability and security of the civil service in their employment choices. Still, they are often disadvantaged in the workplace due to gender discrimination. Despite the measures taken by the Chinese government, the important goal of achieving social equality between men and women has remained an unfinished political agenda due to the lack of a holistic redistributive mechanism that promotes gender equality. In the future, the awakening of women themselves and the development of gender mainstreaming strategies and social policies will have a profound impact on the realization of gender equality in China.