Due to artificial stereotypes employers in Belarus fails to ensure equality of citizens' rights in the workplace.
"Retailers need to counsel telecommunications equipment. Requirements: higher legal education, work experience of 2-3 years, willingness to travel, male, 25-30 years old." I called on the number specified in the announcement.
- Please tell me how strict requirement - to be a man in order to qualify for a position Counsel?
On the other side is responsible female voice:
- This is a tough call. This is due to travel. As practice shows, the girls eventually becomes difficult to go on business trips. They have happen 1-2 times a week.
The requirements for reseller organizations distributor switch equipment "male, 25-33 years" mentioned in the first line. The employer says the presence of a personal car, staying in Minsk, experience and active life position. Wondering whether I will make an exception here.
- Man is a must. We work in the construction segment. The person needs to be run on construction sites, in the mud, to talk with the workers and foremen. Because of this mentality does not take a contingent of women. We have done experiments with women - the voice on the other side broke the dreams of the harsh reality of stereotypes.
Warehouse Manager in a company that sells auto parts. Following the announcement, the candidate for this position must be a man of 35 years old, responsible, focused and owning a computer. Has no hope of success, I call there.
- This is not a strict requirement. Are ready to consider your candidacy - encouraged by the employer.
The same answer I heard from the entertainment website and online store, which are looking for freelance moderator and courier.
Were frequent announcements to vacancies which employers indicated otherwise requirement - "woman" or "girl". For reasons of clarity ask my male colleagues call the Minsk popular sushi chain stores. Vacancy - "assistant administrator". Candidates for this job must only be "good-looking girl, with 18 to 25 years." Employer response was quite unexpected:
- We have already taken several times boys - does not matter. Duties include cleaning, they did not like.
The state does not use the potential of its citizens
To understand the causes of sexual preference of employers, speak to the researcher Alena Laszkievicz gender. "When adults tell children:" Take your toys ", the boys and girls exhibited different requirements - analyzes expert.
- Boy rakes their stuff under the bed, he would say, "Well done," and the girl, "Well, you're a girl! Shame on you! "If a boy gets a job where you have to clean up, it turns out, he can not do that."
In 2013 was published the manual on non-formal education "Gender educational program." Alena - the author of the section on women's employment issues in Belarus. The researcher believes that the employer often makes decisions not based on merit candidates.
- Classics of the genre: "Looking for a nice, sociable girls to hand out leaflets. Payment - $ 3 per hour "- gives the example of Elena. - A charming young man can do it with no less success than the girl. What's the difference what sex will be the distributor of booklets? If I were an employer, I would have tried to strike a balance. There are a variety of clients, and still do not know who is who is more like it. Probably because of the low pay employer expects his proposal to interest young women. "
Travel, exercise, socializing with "severe" contingent, maternity leave - all artificial stereotypes employers convinced specialist. "Because of this, employers can cut off the experienced and active workers - sums Elena Leshkevich. - As a result of suffering and employers, and workers, and the state. Human potential is not used to the full. "
Four years ago, a human rights activist from Vitebsk Leanid Sviecik looking for a job through the newspaper job. "It surprised me a lot of ads when designated gender and age of the candidate - says human rights activist. - I turned to the Constitutional Court with the request, whether such statements comply with the law. "
In its ruling, the supreme judicial authority found that, by sex and age, violates the rights of potential job applicants. The document, signed by the chairman of the Constitutional Court Piotr Miklaszevicz, proposed to the Council of Ministers to draft amendments to the Labour Code and the Law "On Employment".
Despite this, Leanid Sviecik not recall in my practice when applicants complained of discriminatory conditions for employers.
It was not necessary to provide such assistance to the lawyer, the deputy chairman of women's network, "the Congress of Democratic Trade Unions" Alena Jaskova. "Prove it is impossible, - she said. - Such complaints do not have adverse consequences. Right of the employer - to take or not to take without giving a reason - to challenge in court today when a misunderstanding of gender equality is unrealistic. "
Meanwhile, the fate of the proposed changes to the Labor Code is not known even to Mr. Sviecik.
Alina Karankievicz, belsat.eu
