Female Graduates Face Less Pay, Fewer Jobs – China Business

www.echinacities.com — I love Paul's articles because they make me feel smarter. This article digs deeper into the employment problems facing recent college graduates and finds the situation for men and women is neither fair nor balanced, and starts to get into the troubling effects: cooking skills being listed on resume, racy photos attached to CVs, etc.

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