A course in China’s ZhenÂjiang City’s Zhenjiang College is in news for teaching young women how to be “perfect”. According to a report published in The Washington Post, ZhenÂjiang College and the All-China Women’s Federation have been teaching female students how to dress, pour tea all in the name of President Xi Jinping’s “new era”. As part […]
They are called Programmer Motivators. These are attractive women hired to look after and massage coders at Chinese startups. Part cheerleader and psychologist, the women are hired to chat up and calm stressed-out coders. Sui-Lee Wee, business reporter for New York Times in China, looked into the life of Shen Yue, a “programmer motivator” who chats with her […]
When we are trying to set precedents to desexualise work culture by including both men and women in the same line and category, it seems a Chinese company is working in a totally different direction. A Beijing-based company’s boss has a bizarre rule of getting all female employees working in the company to gather between […]
