SEOUL, Jul. 9 (Korea Bizwire) — Women accounted for 1 out of 5 employees at South Korea’s top 600 companies as the country moves to take full advantage of talented workers irrespective of their gender, a local think tank said Sunday. The finding that excludes financial and insurance firms showed 22.6 percent of employees in [...]
SEOUL, Jul. 3 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korean women employees are paid less than their male counterparts among Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) member economies, due to wage discrimination, data showed Monday. The proportion of female low-salaried workers who are paid less than two-thirds of the median wage stood at 37.6 percent in [...]
SEOUL, July 12 (Korea Bizwire) – Some 75 percent of female public workers and public schoolteachers used childcare leave after having their first child, but less than half of their counterparts working at private companies did so, a study said Tuesday. The gap was even wider between female workers hired in permanent positions (46.9 percent) [...]
SEOUL, June 14 (Korea Bizwire) – The ratio of female workers in South Korea’s 600 largest companies by revenue has been on the rise in recent years, data showed Tuesday, as South Korea is pushing to bring more women into the nation’s workforce. The number of female employees at the 600 firms stood at 235,171 [...]
SEOUL, May 25 (Korea Bizwire) – A recent survey revealed that a time of the day between 10 am to 3 pm is the most preferred time for married women to partake in economic activity. According to Findjob, Korea’s online job search portal, which conducted a survey on 1,760 female job seekers who were older [...]