SEOUL, Sept. 5 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korean women not only earn far less than men during their working lives but also receive significantly smaller pensions in retirement, according to new research presented Thursday by the Korean Confederation of Trade Unions (KCTU). The study, conducted by senior researcher Jang Jin-hee of the KCTU’s Central Research [...]
SEOUL, Apr. 16 (Korea Bizwire) — While the number of women benefiting from South Korea’s national pension system has steadily increased, a substantial gender gap remains when compared to their male counterparts, highlighting the need for further progress. According to data from the National Pension Service, the number of female subscribers reached 10.15 million as of [...]
SEOUL, Dec. 27 (Korea Bizwire) — The average hourly wages of women climbed to about 70 percent of those of men last year, while the gap in employment between men and women has narrowed, a government report showed Wednesday. The labor and gender equality ministries jointly published the 2023 white paper report on women’s economic [...]
SEOUL, May 8 (Korea Bizwire) — Men and women in their 20s show the biggest difference in their levels of sexual harassment understanding and gender equality consciousness than other age groups, research released by the state human rights watchdog said Saturday. According to the report by the National Human Rights Commission of Korea (NHRCK), men [...]
SEOUL, March 4 (Korea Bizwire) — More women than men feel concerned about being disadvantaged at work for taking time off to attend to parental duties amid the coronavirus pandemic, a survey showed Thursday. The survey, which was conducted by the Federation of Korean Trade Unions (FKTU), an umbrella labor group, ahead of March 8 [...]
SEOUL, Oct. 18 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korean teenagers have different perspectives on gender equality based on their gender, according to a recent survey. The National Youth Policy Institute conducted a survey of 9,008 teenagers, during which only 86.2 percent of male respondents agreed to the proposition that it is uncomfortable for male employees to [...]
SEOUL, Jun. 10 (Korea Bizwire) — Throughout elementary, middle, and high school, male students have better grades in mathematics than females. Taking out the environmental factor, however, gender differences disappear, according to a recent study. Lim Seul-ki, a PhD candidate at Sogang University and Asst. Prof. Lee Soo-hyung argued in a recent paper that South [...]
SEOUL, May 23 (Korea Bizwire) – The wage gap between male and female workers at large firms here widened in the first quarter from a year earlier, data showed Thursday. Women working for 202 major listed companies were paid an average 15.37 million won (US$12,910) in the January-March period, or 63.5 percent of the median pay [...]
SEOUL, May 7 (Korea Bizwire) — Seoul still has a wide jobholder gender gap and more than half of its working citizens earn less than 3 million won (US$2,570) a month, a survey showed Tuesday. According to the Seoul Metropolitan Government’s annual survey, 76.2 percent of male citizens and 45.7 percent of female citizens had [...]
GENEVA, Dec. 18 (Korea Bizwire) — The level of economic participation and opportunity of South Korean women is well below the world average, putting the country in 115th position out of 149 countries in terms of gender equality, according to a report released Tuesday by the World Economic Forum (WEF). The forum’s Global Gender Gap [...]