you are right in saying there is discrimination. besides gender,
race is also an issue in this multi-cultural everybody-so-gracious
model country. you can slap another’s back and say, hey no such
thing, but you have got to see the dust under the carpet. however,
the best chance to get jobs today is via networking and temp jobs
are usually aplenty at those employment agencies. again, if the HR
person is a female (usually) and if there is a choice between 2
candidates (male & female), all things being equal, there is a
likelihood of her giving the better/easier job or that with better
pay to her own gender. this is not some unsubstantiated hogwash,
but quality academic journals (again, not your regular mickey mouse
tabloids) has shown this to be the case everywhere. that being
said, other factors may also affect such decisions. also, with the
female proportion higher than males in this tiny red dot, no wonder
males are really hard up finding jobs in some sectors like the
service industry or they just go about accepting the undesirable
ones. on the other hand, if rigourous statistics are able to show
that most high level positions are taken up by males, it could be
be the stereotypes that one associate with a certain position.
again, are you at fault to think that males are aggressive and
females are submissive? While you cannot put the blame entirely on
the educational policy or fanatical groups like aware, one must
also be prepared for the day where this issue rear its ugly head.
So, just acknowledge that we as a whole have taken too many things
for granted. for example, even as societygets more liberal and
women empowerment grows in strenght, few can accept the wisecrack
of a do-i-know-u lady scholar who chooses to think that men who
went thru ns becomes a big whiner (just wondering what the mindef
pr dept have got to do to reverse this perception?) eventually, all
these issues are counterproductive since humans need both
male/female to survive and one cannot simply be blasted out from a
rock. such ‘divide’ may just be a convenient tactic to stray one
from major policies that need attention. so, rather than based
someone on the gender, race, height or body fat, ex-durg
addict/convicts, educate everybody especially hirers/employers on
these issues. one is not trying to stir shit in the bucket so to
speak, but if you maintain polite silence, nothing is going to
progress.