Violations are still rampant: a recent government inspection found that almost 87% of manufacturing workplaces failed to stick to the overtime limit.
In spite of this, participants reported that their workplaces failed to address interpersonal conflict such as bullying, sexual harassment and discrimination (even when there were formal complaint mechanisms and they had used these) and that this failure had detrimental effects on mental health.
But workplaces fail to accommodate the socially essential caregiving work of their employees in various ways.
This raises a question about whether the indirect forms of guidance become more common in case workplaces fail at allocating adequate resources for guidance.
Joan Williams ("Unbending Gender"), Sylvia Ann Hewlett ("Creating a Life"), Arlie Russell Hochschild (who coined the phrase "the second shift") and Felice N. Schwartz (who made popular the phrase "the mommy track"), to name just a few, have done important work about how the workplace has failed women.
It's not just that the workplace has failed women.
Even before the Strauss-Kahn scandal, the fund had a reputation among many of its female staff members as a workplace that failed to police unwanted amorous advances and other forms of harassment.
The bill is based on the premise that the 1963 Equal Pay Act, which bans sex discrimination in the workplace, has failed; for proof, proponents point out that for every dollar men earn, women earn just 77 cents.
An editorial published Tuesday in The China Business Morning Post pointed out that three fires had occurred over four days in northeast China, the other two under the watch of agricultural and oil companies.One reason, the editorial said, is that those responsible for workplace safety failed to do their jobs.
Yet even though the great majority of families no longer fit that pattern, most workplaces have failed to take the change on board.
