Hong Kong - A Hong Kong men's group called Monday on supermarket chains to employ male cashiers after failing to find a single man manning a checkout lane in the city of 6.9 million.

The Hong Kong Men's Concern Group counted 239 female cashiers and not one male cashier in a survey of 30 supermarkets conducted with the help of a sympathetic legislator.

The group argued that men should be given a chance to work on supermarket tills and claimed that the lack of male checkout staff proved sex discrimination by the stores. (dpa)