Other types of discrimination,based on the name or the age,have been reported as well.For example,the manager of a store wanted to hire a woman to be a salesperson but quickly changed his mind when he learned that her family name was "Pei',which in Mandarin can sound like "loosing money"4.Same situation happened when a young man namedJia''applied for a customer service position in a company.The manager did not hire him because Jia is pronounced like the word "fake15.Another department store had stipulated in its official employment policy that all sales representatives should be below 35 years old and be registered as permanent resident of Beijing.It is well known in China that many employers prefer to employ young people and that older candidates,even though qualified,may struggle more to find a job i)Gender Women clearly play a very important role in all aspects of the Chinese society.Their equality to men has long been recognized and is now officialised by the Constitution'.Mao Zedong,in a speech given in 1955,declared: Enable every woman who can work to take her place on the labor front under the principle of equal pay for equal work.This should be done as soon as possible.19 Nonetheless,many women continue to be victim of gender-based discrimination.The online China Information Center2 reports that general discrimination against women has Charles Chen and Jihong Wu,Employment Discrimination in China,Canadian International Lawyer,Vol6, No.1(2004),at40. 51d. 161d,at41. 71d,at40. i Article 48,Constitution of the People's Republic of China,available online at http://english.gov.cn/2005- 08/05/content 20813.htm(the Constitution have been adopted at the Fifth Session of the Fifth National People's Congress and promulgated for implementation by the Proclamation of the National People's Congress on December 4.1982). 9Ronald Brown,supra note 11,at 371. J5 Other types of discrimination, based on the name or the age, have been reported as well. For example, the manager of a store wanted to hire a woman to be a salesperson but quickly changed his mind when he learned that her family name was ‘‘Pei’’, which in Mandarin can sound like ‘‘loosing money’’14 . Same situation happened when a young man named ‘‘Jia’’ applied for a customer service position in a company. The manager did not hire him because Jia is pronounced like the word ‘‘fake’’15 . Another department store had stipulated in its official employment policy that all sales representatives should be below 35 years old and be registered as permanent resident of Beijing16 . It is well known in China that many employers prefer to employ young people and that older candidates, even though qualified, may struggle more to find a job17 . i) Gender Women clearly play a very important role in all aspects of the Chinese society. Their equality to men has long been recognized and is now officialised by the Constitution18. Mao Zedong, in a speech given in 1955, declared: Enable every woman who can work to take her place on the labor front under the principle of equal pay for equal work. This should be done as soon as possible.19 Nonetheless, many women continue to be victim of gender-based discrimination. The online China Information Center20 reports that general discrimination against women has 14 Charles Chen and Jihong Wu, Employment Discrimination in China, Canadian International Lawyer, Vol.6, No.1 (2004), at 40. 15 Id. 16 Id., at 41. 17 Id., at 40. 18 Article 48, Constitution of the People’s Republic of China, available online at http://english.gov.cn/2005- 08/05/content_20813.htm (the Constitution have been adopted at the Fifth Session of the Fifth National People's Congress and promulgated for implementation by the Proclamation of the National People's Congress on December 4, 1982). 19 Ronald Brown, supra note 11, at 371