If you’re a good-looking woman with a college degree, fluent English and an interest in arranging clothes or preparing tea and fruit salad for a Chinese machinery tycoon, Sany Heavy Industry has just the job for you.

A recruitment ad posted under the Chinese company’s name has drawn ridicule online, prompting a debate over what critics say is widespread employment discrimination in the world’s most-populous country. Sany Heavy's high profile appears to have contributed to the outcry over the ad.

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