Top of the Great Era

Chapter 2061 Equality between men and women
Zhou Buqi sat in the office and spent more time talking to people.Choose a direction first, and then learn more about the company's internal details through close communication.

After talking with Zhang Yiming, this morning, he communicated with Zhang Xuhao, the president of Xiaonei, Gu Xinyuan, the director of human resources, and Zheng Xiaoli, the vice president of the search business.

Especially Zheng Xiaoli, her eyes were red, as if she had cried.

Zhou Buqi also made an exception and sent her directly out of the office and to the elevator when she left.

This Zheng Xiaoli is in charge of mobile products. She was pregnant in April, but she has not taken a break. Unexpectedly, she fell in the office last month and had a miscarriage after being sent to the hospital.

This incident is so embarrassing.

It also makes people feel the difficulty of women in the workplace.

However, this sister Zheng did not compromise, and returned to work in the company after a half-month rest.Zhou Buqi talked to her, not about business, but mainly to comfort her. At the same time, he asked her how the company should take special care of women in the workplace in terms of benefits.

Zheng Xiaoli's crying was not because she was hit or wronged, she was not that vulnerable, but was moved by the caring attitude of the big boss.

However, she has a different idea about workplace benefits.

Zheng Xiaoli shook her head firmly, "I don't think there should be more benefits for women. On the contrary, we should further reduce the preferential treatment for women and try to achieve equality between men and women."

"Why?" Zhou Buqi didn't dare to adjust the company's system casually, not because Ziweixing couldn't afford the little welfare expenses, but because he was worried that it would affect his whole body, "This time I went to the United States, I went to Google several times, I also learned about one of their welfare policies. Female employees of Google can have 2-3 days of menstrual leave every month."

Zheng Xiaoli immediately refused, "Don't!"

Zhou Buqi was a little surprised by her resolute attitude, and said with a smile: "I know you are an executive and a strong woman, but I think...you can get more benefits for women. I know how many women are in the workplace. Even if it is difficult, the company is willing to support and encourage more.”

Zheng Xiaoli sighed softly, "Boss, it is because I stand from the perspective of women that I think the company should be more inclined to equality between men and women in terms of policy benefits."

"You are a strong woman, and you can even stabilize most men..."

"No, not for that reason."

"That is?"

"I..." Zheng Xiaoli sighed again, "Boss, I have personally experienced this kind of thing. This is really not sexism, nor is it that the company's benefits are not good. I am a woman, but when I employ people, there are several times. I had a special explanation with HR once, saying that this position is quite special and only recruits male employees.”

Zhou Buqi nodded, "The workload is too much, so you have to work overtime?"

Zheng Xiaoli said: "It is indeed because of work. Of course, I do not rule out that there are many excellent female employees. They have strong fighting spirit and strong mental willpower, and they are not inferior to male employees at all. However, compared with male employees, the probability is lower after all. some."

Zhou Buqi let out a "huh".

This is like the recruitment of a large company, which has to select talents from 985 and 211 colleges and universities.

The level of college students who are not ordinary universities is not good.

In fact, there are many outstanding talents who have graduated from ordinary universities or have not even studied in the society.

But this is a matter of probability.

Selecting talents from 985 and 211 colleges and universities has a higher probability of recruiting excellent talents, and the company's trial and error costs are lower, which can save money and efficiency.

Zheng Xiaoli sighed: "I know, boss, you have a big picture. The company is willing to provide more trial and error costs and higher workplace benefits to support women in the workplace. However, if you put it in an individual, in each group unit, No one wants to bear the cost of trial and error. You have such a big picture, not everyone has it. If I look at myself, I can’t do it.”

Because Zhou Buqi talked to her about pregnancy and miscarriage before, and expressed deep concern, which moved Zheng Xiaoli very much. At the same time, it also shortened the distance between her and the boss, and felt the approachability of the big boss.

So in the next communication, it will be more open and honest.

Zheng Xiaoli talked about her career experience, "I was promoted from product director to product vice president in February this year. At that time, there were 2 other colleagues competing for this position at the same time as me. They were all excellent and all men. I had to Admit it, I have the gender advantage."

Zhou Buqi immediately comforted her, and said with a smile: "You are overthinking, the company will not promote you just because you are a woman, it must be because you are good enough."

Zheng Xiaoli smiled, "If they are equally excellent, I still have a certain advantage of being promoted first."

"Ah."

Zhou Buqi was noncommittal.

This is real.

For IT companies, there are fewer female executives.Domestic companies are fine. Like those big companies in South Korea and Japan, if you can see one or two women among the executives, that is an excellent company.

Such an atmosphere is actually not good.

The more geniuses and excellent employees, the higher the spiritual level.If there are too few women in the company's executives, it will appear that the company's spiritual level is too low. It only cares about making money and lacks humanistic care and social responsibility, and it will make many employees... including male employees, feel disappointed in the company.

Therefore, when domestic IT companies recruit, promote, and promote, women have more or less priority.If there are two employees, one male and one female, if both have similar abilities and similar comprehensive indicators, female employees will often be given priority.

But even that is far from enough.

The middle and high-level staff are basically men, and the proportion of women can reach 25%, which is not bad.

Zheng Xiaoli's tone was relatively light, somewhat self-deprecating, "At that time, I was able to get a promotion... Of course, to a certain extent, this was indeed reasonable, because of the performance and various indicators I put forward, and in uniting colleagues. , the communication between superiors and subordinates is better than that of several other colleagues.”

Zhou Buqi laughed and said, "Of course, you are good enough!"

Zheng Xiaoli said: "It is also a gender advantage. Because I am a woman, I dare to use male employees more boldly. The other 4 colleagues are all male. They should not pay too much attention to male employees. They must always take care of them outside of normal work. Female employees do not choose people and assign tasks because of the job itself, they are mixed with gender factors."

Zhou Buqi was silent.

This topic is not easy to pick up, it is too politically incorrect.

Zheng Xiaoli can say this kind of thing, she is a woman, Zhou Buqi can't talk nonsense.Just like blacks can make fun of niggers, it is discrimination when others say it.

However, an outstanding woman like Zheng Xiaoli has already passed the level of simple superficial gender distinction and low-level discrimination.Excellent people can not only accept the ridicule of others, but even actively laugh at themselves.

Zheng Xiaoli said: "I am a woman, so when communicating with superiors and subordinates, everyone will respect me more. Even if I face some male colleagues with rough work attitudes, they will give me face. This makes me I got full marks for the item of 'unity with colleagues'. At the same time, I can use male subordinates more boldly, only looking at work ability, regardless of other things."

After a pause, she continued: "When I started working, I also had many female employees under my management. I also thought about using my power as a leader to help them. However, after helping them, my business score is low. Yes, it seems that my business ability is not good. With male employees, I can use them like cows and horses, and scold them as much as I want, without any restraint. I can even arrange some very stressful tasks, and I can use them from a purely working perspective to deal with them."

Zhou Buqi remained silent.

It's also somewhat helpless.

Let alone Zheng Xiaoli, he couldn't handle this kind of thing on him.

Just like this Zheng Xiaoli, she had a miscarriage, and Zhou Buqi called her to the office to comfort her, encourage her, and give her spiritual comfort.

Also last month, He Yang's wife had a car accident and broke several ribs. She is still lying in the hospital, and he has to go to the hospital every day.

But this kind of thing is hardly mentioned in the company. A big man should work harder and suffer more.Zhou Buqi just greeted him briefly, and said nothing else.

It's completely different from Zheng Xiaoli's treatment.

Zheng Xiaoli opened up the topic, so she calmed down and said calmly: "Later, I gained experience and used a large number of male employees when selecting candidates. If I could not use female employees, I didn't need them. Then, my performance improved, more and more The better, far ahead of my colleagues at the same level, I will continue to be promoted. In fact, I know that this is my gender advantage. Other male managers, they dare not use female employees, I dare. I use it, and no one will Say I am sexist. In fact, I really do not discriminate against women. I am a woman. What am I discriminating against? It is really because female employees have too many troubles, falling in love, breaking up, parents getting sick, and feeling unwell during menstruation. Arguing with colleagues, the rent is due... There are too many emotional things that have nothing to do with work that will affect the entire team."

Zhou Buqi said: "Equality between men and women should not mean treating men and women with the same standard, but should use a series of welfare policies to bring men and women to the same standard."

Zheng Xiaoli sighed softly: "Boss, I know your intentions are good, but the benefits of menstrual leave are really not allowed. This will only make women in the workplace worse. If there are 10 people in a team, if female employees increase their menstrual leave, it means that the team There are several days of lack of people every month. The more female employees, the lack of team combat effectiveness will be doubled. People are more reluctant to use female employees, and there are fewer employment opportunities for women. Unless it can be like Like European and American countries, additional subsidies are given at the national level."

(End of this chapter)