Posted on 11/15/2018 10:47:42 PM PST by 2ndDivisionVet
BEIJING — China’s vibrant technology scene is searching for people like Shen Yue. Qualifications: Must be attractive, know how to charm socially awkward programmers and give relaxing massages.
Ms. Shen is a “programmer motivator,” as they are known in China. Part psychologist, part cheerleader, the women are hired to chat up and calm stressed-out coders. The jobs are proliferating in a society that largely adheres to gender stereotypes and believes that male programmers are “zhai,” or nerds who have no social lives.
“They really need someone to talk to them from time to time and to organize activities for them to ease some of the pressure,” said Ms. Shen, a 25-year-old who has a degree in civil engineering from a university in Beijing.
Chinese women have made great strides in the workplace. The country has the world’s largest number of self-made female billionaires, while many start-ups have women in senior roles. But at a time when the United States and other countries are directly confronting the #MeToo movement, the inequalities and biases in China are rarely discussed openly and remain firmly entrenched....
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I wholly concur.
There are indescribably beautiful and unusually “less than attractive” women in EVERY ethnic group you can imagine.
There is also personal bias involved, too.
What YOU like is fine. Be glad we all don’t like the same as you, because You’d Lose!
Yawn. NYT reports decades old news.
go ask Al Gore, he has a chakra that needs massaging...;)
kinda amazing ole Al has not popped up in the metoo movement since several ladies complained about his chakra massaging...
> I’ve yet to locate an ethnicity which didn’t have at least some women I found insanely hot.
I can name quite a few... any African or Arab ethnicity is an automatic nay in my book. Never seen a single one of either group that qualifies as attractive to me. Any attractive black female to Western eyes always has a large percentage of Caucasian blood in her.
You sure you wouldn't like to rethink that?
Exit code 0069, what’s that? “Happy ending”
robots saying we wuv you wong time GI
I saw an advertisement for flight attendants at Surigao airport, Philippines. It specified a height, weight, and age range for applicants. It also required a “good complexion” and a “nice set of teeth”.
Surprised they didn’t build some...
Funny how stories like these never seem to have a Comments section on the NY Times site . . .
:: The country has the world’s largest number of self-made female billionaires ::
That would be yuan-based.
My friend who worked in administration in a hospital told me there is a position called, “Night Visitor”. I still don’t know if it’s true; I’m skeptical. In any case, in the middle of the night, wearing an appropriate (in-appropriate?) outfit, the Night Visitor lady would pop in to the rooms of men who have, or believe they have, a “certain” malady. It was a test to see if there was an issue or not.
Like I said: I’m skeptical.
oh how special, yea phillipines...lol
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