In recent years, when working in government agencies, especially counties, districts, and towns, I discovered a phenomenon: there are more and more female cadres than male cadres.
An insider said that boys are in high demand in government agencies and are very popular. That unit also wanted boys who could work and produce jobs. Newly recruited boys who have not found girlfriends are very popular, and the old aunties in the agency have already made reservations for their own daughters or those of other relatives and friends.
Lao Liang, a fourth-level researcher in a municipal unit, has been engaged in civil service recruitment, public service personnel recruitment and daily management work for many years. His analysis can help us figure out the truth behind why boys have become the favorites of government agencies.
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Things are rare and valuable, and people are rare.
Government agencies Public institutions Boys are popular. On the surface, it is because there are fewer boys and more girls.
An old official who worked in the county party committee in the 1990s said that in the 1990s, it was rare to see a few people wearing skirts in the county party committee yard. Young people occasionally saw someone wearing a skirt and could stare at them for a long time. There were shy female cadres who were so stared at that they would not leave. Now take a look at the county party committee yard, and you will see that many people are wearing skirts as they walk by.
In recent years, northern provinces have openly recruited civil servants and business personnel from provinces and cities to counties and townships. The proportion of girls applying for admission has been significantly higher than that of boys. In counties and townships, the ratio is even higher, with the ratio of men to women reaching 3:7 or even 2:8.
When provinces and cities select and select cadres from counties and townships, in order to meet the needs of writing materials, working night shifts, and serving leaders, they tend to want male cadres. City and county offices, discipline inspection commissions, organization departments and other units also prefer male cadres when selecting and transferring cadres at the same level.
After several rounds of screening, the chances of some units recruiting new boys or retaining boys are basically zero. As a result, some units with a small number of employees, such as labor unions, science and technology bureaus, and Science and Technology Associations, , etc., have all female cadres, or a male leader leading a group of female cadres. People jokingly call these units the "Second Women's Federation."
In some towns and streets, female cadres gather together while male cadres are scarce. Especially in streets, the proportion of female cadres is higher. During the recent leadership changes in townships and subdistricts, male cadres were basically promoted as long as they met the conditions. On average, there are 4 female cadres in each township leadership team, accounting for more than one-third of the total, which is much higher than the policy requirements. There are an average of 7 female cadres in each sub-district leadership team, accounting for more than two-thirds of the total. Some armed ministers are also served by female cadres.
A cadre who has been engaged in organizational personnel work for a long time said that superiors have been emphasizing the cultivation of female cadres for many years. According to the current trend of cadre training, it may be necessary to emphasize the cultivation of male cadres in the future.
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China has historically been a male-dominated society, where men were superior to women and women were in charge of domestic affairs. Historically, officialdom has been dominated by men, with very few women participating in politics.
With the continuous improvement of women's status in modern times, women have gradually entered the work of administrative agencies.
In recent years, although all levels have focused on cultivating female cadres, they have trained a large number of outstanding female cadres. However, it is deeply ingrained in people’s minds that institutions are still dominated by men and are jobs suitable for men.
In today's government agencies and institutions, it is impossible for any unit to live a day with a cup of tea, a pack of cigarettes, and a newspaper. Especially at the county and township level, there are thousands of lines above and a needle below, facing the masses directly, and there are still many urgent, dangerous and heavy tasks.
After the poverty alleviation, we continued to send cadres to villages to help with rural revitalization, go into companies and mines to inspect production safety, investigate safety hazards, handle cross-level petitions, resolve conflicts and disputes, protect forests and prevent fires, fight disasters and provide disaster relief, as well as work at night, overtime, business trips, and drive...
Office work is not only mental work, but also physical work.
In comparison, male cadres have obvious advantages over female cadres in doing these tasks, but female cadres do have their own difficulties.
In particular, due to the major adjustments to the national fertility policy, which has allowed for the second and third children, female cadres have significantly increased their time to have children and take care of their families, and objectively have less energy to spend on work.
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Compared with girls, boys have natural shortcomings in taking exams.
Some girls have no choice but to take the editing exam, while others have innate advantages.
Objective gender discrimination in employment exists . Compared with boys, it is harder for girls to find jobs outside the system, so taking the compilation exam has become a good employment option.
The wages and benefits within the system are figuratively said by some to be like a mouse's tail, neither thick nor thin, but long.
Girls generally pursue stability, and their jobs within the system are relatively stable. Although their income is not high, it is basically guaranteed in times of drought and flood, which is in line with the employment expectations of parents and girls.
Boys have greater financial pressure to start a family, start a career, and support their families. They are naturally willing to make a career, and are more suitable for working outside the system. Compared with girls, there are fewer students who choose to take the exam.
Most girls study liberal arts, and the professional and employment aspects are relatively narrow. The content of the preparation examination is biased towards liberal arts, and girls have an inherent advantage in taking the preparation examination.
Although it goes against the requirements of gender equality and , gender discrimination is not allowed in open recruitment. But in fact, when government agencies and institutions are recruiting, they generally want boys rather than girls. Even female "top leaders" generally think this way.
When applying for recruitment plans, employers often propose that in order to increase the chances of recruiting boys, some positions are limited to male applicants. From the perspective of gender equality and non-gender discrimination, relevant departments generally only allow male applicants to apply for a very small number of positions such as confidential and emergency positions.
When some units set up recruitment majors, they try their best to favor engineering majors where boys study more, such as machinery, computers, chemical engineering, communications, etc.
There are also some units that use several years of planning at once when recruiting. They recruit boys and girls separately for the same position, ensuring that half of them are boys and half of girls are hired. This actually increases the opportunities for boys to get a job. This method has effectively solved the problem of imbalance between men and women in recruitment and examination, and is very popular with employers.
Government agencies and institutions also take great pains and rack their brains in retaining boys.
A certain county-level unit, in order to make the newly recruited male civil servants stay with peace of mind, used a "honey trap" and mobilized the entire unit to introduce the boy to his girlfriend.
