ABSTRACT
A government would adjust the country's population policy in a timely manner according to the country's economic development realities. As China continues to age, the Chinese government is conducting a comprehensive two-child policy from 2016 to 2021, which would evolve into a comprehensive three-child policy by 2022. The two-child policy directly affects women as the main subject of childbirth, causing interruptions in women's careers, and employers may refuse to hire female applicants based on gender, making women's employment problematic. This paper centers on the topic of female employment discrimination, against the background of the comprehensive two-child policy. In the paper, the research on female employment discrimination in China and foreign countries is sorted out and the concepts of female employment discrimination and comprehensive two-child policy are defined. The theories of government governance, market failure and government intervention are introduced, and the shortcomings of existing research are analyzed. Moreover, to understand the current female employment situation, this paper using secondhand data and other materials, to analyse high employment threshold, difficulty in promotion, and compressed maternity protection. The causes of female employment discrimination in the context of the two-child policy are discussed, including the imperfection of existing laws and systems, the lack of supporting measures for the two-child policy, and the influence of traditional culture. At last, by drawing on the experiences of Japan, Norway and other countries, this paper proposes specific solutions in the context of China's national conditions.
