SEOUL, April 16 (Korea Bizwire) — Roughly seven in ten South Koreans aged 25 to 44 believe women should work to help support their families, reflecting a growing societal shift toward shared economic responsibility and evolving gender roles, according to a new study released Wednesday. The report, titled “Greater Flexibility in Life Course Outlooks and the [...]
SEOUL, Dec. 6 (Korea Bizwire) — About one-third of South Korean working mothers with underage children were irregular workers paid lower wages, data showed Friday, underscoring the reality that taking time off to raise children is harming many women’s career prospects. A total of 641,000 female contract workers had kids under 18 as of April [...]
SEOUL, Nov. 6 (Korea Bizwire) — The appellate court reversed a lower court’s decision on a case where a working mom hired as a probationary employee was not taken on as a regular employee after refusing to work on weekends to take care of her children. Seoul High Court, in a case filed by a [...]
SEOUL, Mar. 27 (Korea Bizwire) — If working moms, hired as temporary workers in a company, skip work due to tasks that collide with taking care of their children, it cannot serve as basis for not hiring them as regular workers, according to a recent court decision. The ruling comes as the Seoul Administrative Court, [...]
SEOUL, Dec. 10 (Korea Bizwire) — A recent survey has revealed that 49.1 percent of female salaried employees living with a child under 18 years of age were paid less than 2 million won (US$1,773) per month. Compared to all salaried employees, 10.8 percent more working moms made less than 2 million won per month. [...]
SEOUL, Jan. 18 (Korea Bizwire) — Traditional gender roles in South Korean households are changing, as new data shows men are involved in childcare and housework now more than ever. The number of economically inactive South Korean men involved in childcare and housework now stands at 170,000, the highest level since records began in 2003, according [...]
SEOUL, March 17 (Korea Bizwire) – Nearly half of South Korea’s working moms quit their jobs within a year of taking childcare leave, a report said Friday. The high proportion of early retirement by women is attributed to discrimination at the workplace and long work hours, the report by the Korea Institute for Health and [...]
SEOUL, July 9 (Korea Bizwire) – A recent study disproved the current negative remarks on young Korean women of their excessive dependency on men, who are often marked with a scarlet letter “Kimchi girl.” “Kimchi girl” is a derogatory webspeak word in Korea, used to indicate young Korean women who depend entirely on men of [...]
SEOUL, Korea, Mar 7 (Korea Bizwire) – One of two working mothers grumbled that they had no time for themselves, a survey said. Especially 64.2 percent of those with preschool kids replied so. According to a survey conducted by a job portal, JobKorea, 62 percent of working moms answered that they needed their own [...]