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Pregnancy and childcare make up an important part of family and social life.
Yet the majority of the input and impact often come down to mothers who sometimes have to halt their careers to provide care for the children.
What happens when they wish to return to the workplace?
Hello, I'm Li Ming and this is roundtable today with Neil Holing and Brandon Yates.
We look at measures aimed at making things easier for mothers who make their way back to the workforce.
So there is a term in Chinese that's designated especially for positions that the society are creating for mothers who want to go back to their career.
And that is Ma Gang, which literally translates into mothers positions.
And so who are taking these measures to, you know, make it easier for these mothers who would like to go back to the workforce?
Well, before diving into the details of Mama Gong itself, actually, I think it's important to make the distinction between Mama's position and the kind of jobs that moms decided to go back to and they want to go back to and they can go back to, because with the development of society, of technology, actually a lot of works can be done through the health, with the help of Internet and long distance.
And you do not really have to be on that post, you just have to deliver.
For example, if a mom, after several years of taking care of her kid and decided to pick on a little bit of task, she can definitely be an artificial intelligence photographer, she can become a video editor and taking on different tasks, she can become a social media operator, a blogger, someone, even accountant.
Jobs are sometimes able to be done by someone out of the company.
So these are for the kind of moms who can actually do these, relatively speaking, sophisticated jobs with this kind of technology and this kind of skills.
But are these specific jobs linked to moms that have, are returning to work?
Or can it also be applied to moms that have always been just, you know, involved in motherhood or, and have never worked before?
That's the interesting point, because all these jobs I have listed are actually open to anybody, anybody who wanted to work with a relatively flexible schedule, who wanted to, for example, stay at home once in a while, or just home work and work at home.
These are all the jobs that are open to them.
Yeah, I guess something that needs to be taken into consideration with these sorts of jobs, those also the onboarding process and the training process, because even though they are very flexible jobs for people that require them because of the technology used and, you know, some of the new nature of these jobs, there probably is a fairly complicated onboarding process that hopefully is being taken care of as well.