MEN AND WOMEN AT WORK

LABOUR FORCE PARTICIPATION

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 Vice President Kamala
US Vice-President Harris
Hillary Clinton
Kamala Harris (Presidential
Candidate))

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Former British
Former Australian Prime Minister
Prime Minister
Julia Gillard
Margaret Thatcher
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 Jacinda
Ardern,
New Zealand
Prime minister
German Chancellor
Angela Merkel

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Former British Prime Nicola Sturgeon. First
Minister, Theresa Minister of Scotland
May

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Tsai Lng-wen,
President of Taiwan

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Emily Lau, Christine Loh, former legco
councillors

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 Regina Yip, Audrey Eu

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Carrie Lam, Hong Kong
Chief Executive

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Percentage of male and female Councilors in the
HKSAR government and selection committee
Gender in the Seventh Legislative Council

Total 81.1%, 73 18.9%, 17

Election
Committee 67.5%, 27 32.5%, 13

Functional
Constituency 100.0%, 30 0.0%, 0

Geographical
Constituency 80.0%, 16 20.0%, 4

0% 10% 20% 30% 40% 50% 60% 70% 80% 90% 100%
Geographical Constituency Functional Constituency Election Committee Total
Male 16 30 Male Female 27 73
Female 4 0 13 17

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Percentage of men and women in the Hong
Kong Judiciary

Court of Final Appeal 100%; 4 0%; 0

Court of Appeal 80%; 12 20%; 3

Court of First Instance 62.50%; 15 37.50%; 9

District Court 84.40%; 38 15.60%; 7

0% 20% Male Female

40% 60% 80% 100%

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 Recently Baroness
Hale became the
first female judge at
the Court of Final
Appeal.

But resigned over

disagreements with
the NSL

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 18th National Congress of
the Communist Party of
China at the Great Hall of
the People in Beijing,
November 8, 2012.

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Thought Experiment
• What if it were the other way
around?
• What if 80 percent of the
government were women?
What if there were no male top
judges?
• Would we take it for granted that
there was such a gender
imbalance?

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Men and Women in the workplace

• Women: Put your hands up if you intend to have a full-

time career upon graduating from university.

• Keep your hands up if your mother had a full-time job

for an uninterrupted period of eight years or more.

• Keep your hands up if you grandmother had an

uninterrupted period of eight years or more.
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