Transmigration: Lady Chi Woos The Ice cold Professor Jun
Chapter 533: The women in business conference (2)

Chapter 533: The women in business conference (2)

Security at the palace hotel was tighter on this day than it had ever been before. Not even the engagement banquet of Muyang and Chi Lian had caused as much ruckus as this. Because of the wide spread news about the success of Yi Bori yesterday, more women had come pouring in, attempting to try their luck and attend the conference so that they could pitch their ideas or just have a chance to interact with the queen dowager. A few had containers carrying their home made sweets in the hopes that madam Jing could take a bite, fall in love and buy their recipes. Whatever reason brought them all, the ten dozen guards surrounding the entrance of the hotel were like walls, letting no one that was not verified through.

When the numbers became overwhelming, police had to be deployed at the venue to maintain security.

The situation had become so ridiculous as men tried to enter the venue too. For this reason, the women were treated to some funny comments being made by the male security guards.

"Ma’am, I can see your Adams apple and it’s bigger than mine."

"Ma’am, you must work out a lot because your biceps are bigger than my head."

"Lady, one of the oranges you are using as your breasts has fallen out."

The situation had become quite comical and the conference started one hour later than yesterday’s but the attendees settled down and it begun eventually. Yi Bori had become an overnight celebrity, a few people were pointing to her, taking her pictures and whispering her name.

"Let’s settle down," Rize announced. "We do not have a minute to waste and those are taking pictures of young Yi Bori without her consent I urge you to stop. Our empire has strict laws about photographing minors. Bear in mind that we have many policemen and women in the room so let’s behave."

With her warning, phones were put away and everyone looked ahead.

"Our first speaker today is President Qin Meng of Glory entertainment."

There were not many female presidents and CEO’s in the empire so most of the women in positions of power were well known.

"Goodmorning ladies." President Qin greeted the attendees.

They responded and she nodded, "What a morning today is, right? Now it’s beginning to sink into some of your minds just how great and life changing this conference could be. Aren’t you glad to be here?"

Majority of the attendees nodded and clapped. They knew very well excuse some of them had been offered thousands of yuan to give you their seats.

"I am not going to talk a lot about my journey to the top because financially I never struggled, my family owns glory entertainment. I did not build that company from the ground up but I have grown it, I have expanded our reach within the empire and two international superstars have passed through my hands. Instead I am going to touch a bit on the strongest challenge the women in the entertainment business face and that is sexual harassment. It does not just affect female celebrities but the female and male employees as well but today I am speaking about females specifically. How many of you here have ever had a dream of being a singer, actress, host or anything related to entertainment? Whether you thought about it as a child or an adult I want you to raise your hand."

Ninety percent of the hands went up and the women looked around at their neighbors, smiling in understanding companionship.

"Many hands have gone up which tells you what we all know, the entertainment business is largely occupied by women.

But that’s only at the bottom, at the top in the positions of CEO’S, Presidents, managers, directors, investors ninety five percent of these positions are filled by men. You can look up this information and you will find that it’s not just our empire but outside as well.

And because of this sexual harassment has become the norm in our line of work. I don’t know how many of you here are dreaming of running or working in an entertainment company but you need to know and guard yourself well before you join the work force." Qin Meng did not want to come out and point fingers directly at people like Hong Yibo because of his family. He was not the only one in the company like that, a few male executives expected actresses to entertain them at private dinners. If they refused they would be threatened and cajoled. At times some of their resources or endorsements would be tampered with.

"It’s not just in the entertainment business." Chi Lian added to Qin Meng’s point, "Even in the media business and many other businesses." Gu Xixi had shared many stories with he about the terrible environment in HTV.

"This harassment might be physical where they lay hands on you or verbal where a senior colleague says something lewd to you. It could also be the way they look at you as you walk away or their eyes lingering too long on your chest or thighs and when you feel uncomfortable you are called names like uptight." President Qin continued. "You might think that these things won’t affect you and physically you will be fine but mentally you won’t. I wear suits all the time, long trousers and shirts with long arms. Even the skirts I wear are often long because when I had just joined the company and sought to prove to my family that I was the best choice for president I met a friend who promised to invest but said friend expected other benefits in return and he leered at me so disgustingly. I wondered what it was that suggested to him that I was available that way, perhaps it was the length of my skirt or the top button of my shirt which was open. I have never forgotten that moment, but I never let it stop me. I have used the anger and humiliation I felt that day to work twice harder so that I never have to beg for investments again. I take boxing classes and I have a black belt in karate today. I have never felt more confident as a woman because I know how to protect myself. However, do not go around assuming that every male colleague that approaches you is out to harass you because some of my best employees and friends are male. What I want you to understand simply is that you might come across such a situation as a woman in business or at the work place and when it happens you should know how to handle it. I am going to be passing on some of the ways I have learned to circumvent these situations through the years. One, always carry a recording device, it’s good for recording meetings both for business and personal security. I am not the only one who does so my friend CEO Chi does the same thing. It saved her time and money when Du Moxi claimed to have written her own songs. Because CEO Chi had a recording of the moment they agreed on terms and signed a contract she saved herself from facing a wrongful claim that she stole those songs. By the way if you plan to go into the entertainment business this is quite important because incidents of plagiarism, false contracts, untrue sexual assault and harassment claims , fraud , physical and verbal insults happen sometimes. Having a small recording device can save you a lot of trouble. And these days these devices can send the data to another device so you don’t have to worry about loss of evidence if someone damages that one."

Someone in the audience raised hand and Rize took a microphone over.

"Isn’t recording someone against their will sort of illegal?" She asked.

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