The colleague competing with Li Xiaoyun for the department manager position is a male colleague.
Although there's a lot of talk about gender equality these days.
In reality, whether in the workplace or other aspects, true gender equality is far from being achieved.
Discrimination against women is still widespread.
And the workplace is one of those places that are particularly harsh and unequal towards women.
Not to delve too deeply.
Just taking the common experiences of female employees as an example.
If a woman is approaching 30, or even just over 25, she will be asked if she has a boyfriend, if she's married, if she has kids?
If she doesn't have a boyfriend, or if she has a boyfriend but isn't married, then when she gets married, she'll need marriage leave, and if she has a kid, she'll need maternity leave.
If she's married but doesn't have kids, she'll still need maternity leave in the future.
