SEOUL, May 27 (Korea Bizwire) — The number of female workers at South Korea’s 600 leading firms increased in the past five years, a local think tank said Monday. In an analysis of the top 600 listed companies in the nonfinancial sector, the Korea Economic Research Institute (KERI) found the ratio of female employees out [...]
SEOUL, Apr. 22 (Korea Bizwire) — More than seven out of ten married women thought that it would be better to part if they were not able to resolve a conflict with their spouse. Six out of ten people agreed on starting a new life by remarrying after divorce or death. These results are based [...]
HANOI, Apr. 8 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea emerged as the most favorite destination among Vietnamese women, according to a survey released Monday The survey, conducted by the Ho Chi Minh City-based market research firm Q&Me in March with 1,200 adults, showed that 20 percent of the respondents chose South Korea as their favorite country [...]
SEOUL, Apr. 8 (Korea Bizwire) — Four in 10 South Korean women delivered their babies through cesarean sections, with the numbers going up with the age of the mother giving birth, data showed Monday. According to the Korea Institute for Health and Social Affairs (KIHASA), 42.3 percent of mothers opted to use surgery to have [...]
SEOUL, Apr. 4 (Korea Bizwire) — About 7 out 10 married women disagree with the traditional gender roles of breadwinning husbands and homemaker wives, although a majority of the women acknowledge that mothers are better at raising children, a survey said Thursday. A total of 10,630 married women aged 15 to 49 were polled for [...]
SEOUL, Mar. 8 (Korea Bizwire) — A group of activists claiming to support feminism held a press conference in front of the National Assembly on Thursday, to argue for the need of a feminism party for the first time in Asia. “Of the 300 lawmakers in the National Assembly, only 51 are female, which accounts [...]
SEOUL, Mar. 6 (Korea Bizwire) — Slightly over 1 in 100 executives at South Korea’s top 30 conglomerates are women, data showed Wednesday, pointing to a high C-suite glass ceiling in Asia’s fourth-largest economy. As of end-September last year, 256 units of the leading business groups had 21 female directors, a mere 1.3 percent of [...]
SEOUL, Feb. 26 (Korea Bizwire) — On Monday, the Korea Institute for Health and Social Affairs (KIHASA) released a report title ‘The Status of Childbirth and Policy Implication’ based on data from a 2018 national survey on fertility, family health and welfare. In the report, 49.9 percent of married women between the ages 15 to [...]
SEOUL, Feb. 25 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea remained the top country where women workers face low wages, a report from the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) said Monday. Data from 2017 showed that 35.3 percent of female workers in South Korea were being paid low wages. Employees who were getting less than [...]
SEOUL, Feb. 15 (Korea Bizwire) — A recent study has revealed that younger South Korean women tend to wrongly think of themselves as overweight, while older women see themselves as slimmer than they actually are. A joint research team led by Prof. Lee Yu-mie from Yonsei Severance Hospital and Prof. Choi Kui-son from the National [...]