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Institute for Workplace Studies----------------- Professor Samuel B. Bacharach
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New York, NY 10016 -------------------------------Director, IWS News Bureau
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South Korea

Ministry of Employment and Labor

 

The Employment Rate of Female Workers after 5 Years of Affirmative Action [3 September 2010]

http://www.moel.go.kr/english/topic/employment_policy_view.jsp?&idx=645

or

http://www.moel.go.kr/english/download_eng.jsp?type=&file=100903-affirmativeaction_eng.pdf

[full-text, 3 pages]

 

Over the past five years since the Affirmative Action measure was put

into practice, the employment rate of female workers has steadily climbed

 

- The Ministry of Employment and Labor released the new employment figures

concerning the ratio of male and female workers at 1,576 workplaces

 

The Ministry of Employment and Labor (MOEL) released the result of the

survey on the current employment situation of male and female workers at 1,576

private and public workplaces staffed by 500 or more permanent workers, which are

subject to the Affirmative Action (as of the end of December 2009)

 

According to the survey, the average employment rate of female workers

reached 34.12 percent, a 0.11 percentage point increase from one year earlier, and the

employment rate of female managers 15.09 percent, a 0.96 percentage point increase

from one year earlier.

 

Workplaces staffed by 1,000 or more (658 in total) recorded 35.60 percent in

the average employment rate of female workers and 16.15 percent in the average

employment rate of female managers, each rising 0.5 percentage point and 1.31

percentage points compared to last year.

 

The average employment rate of female workers at workplaces staffed by 500

to less than 1,000 (918 in total) stood at 33.07 percent, a 0.17 percentage point fall

from last year, and the average employment rate of female managers at 14.33 percent,

a 0.71 percentage point rise from last year.

 

The continued increase in the unemployment rate of female workers is

believed to have turned around, albeit to a slight extent, thanks to the Affirmative

Action put into practice in 2006.

 

AND MORE....

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