sign of social crisis which should be overcome, but aging is a positive development which can be regarded as “a
great victory for the humanity”. Just as much as it is a very big challenge, aging needs to be dealt with active
responses.
The current Government set, as one of its priorities for national administration, ‘the road map for 70%
employment rate’, which includes a wide range of measures, such as different supportive programmes to help
women continue their work career in different life courses, under the goal of increasing female employment rate
by 10%, but it has been pointed out that these measures are not effective enough. Since the current Government
was inaugurated in 2013, female employment rate grew by a mere 2.3%p as in 2016 and it still remained much
lower than male employment rate (by about 20%p). In terms of female employment rate as in 2015, the ROK
ranked only the 29th among the then 34 OECD member states.
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Trends in employment rate by gender (15-64 years of age) since 2011
(Unit: %)
Men
Women
2011
74.5
53.1
2012
74.9
53.5
2013
74.9
53.9
2014
75.7
54.9
2015
75.7
55.7
Nov 2016
75.8
56.2
(Source: Statistics Korea, Survey of Economically Active Population (SEAP) 2016)
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Proportion of non-regular work by gender
(Units: %; %p)
All
Men
Women
Gender gap
2011
34.2
27.8
42.8
15.0
2012
33.3
27.2
41.5
14.3
2013
32.6
26.5
40.6
14.1
2014
32.4
26.6
39.9
13.3
2015
32.5
26.5
40.2
13.7
Jun 2016
32.8
26.4
41.0
14.6
(Source: Statistics Korea, Supplementary Survey by Employment Status of the SEAP, August 2016)
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See Endnote 7 above.
１２
According to the gender pay gap indicators of OECD members which are annually published by PwC,
a UK-based independent accounting consulting firm, the ROK recorded 36% in average gender pay gap in 2015,
which was the worst among the observed nations (PwC, PwC Women In Work Index: Closing the gender pay
gap, Feb 2017, p.24).
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According to an analysis of the court decisions that confirmed sex crimes and ordered the perpetrators'
personal information to be made public in 2015, which was commissioned by the Ministry of Gender Equality
and Family to the Korean Women’s Development Institute, 3,366 persons were given an order of personal
information disclosure after being convicted of a sex crime against children or juveniles over the year, which
was a 4.1% increase from the previous year (3,234 persons), while the number of convicted rapists declined
from 855 (in 2014) to 733 persons (in 2015), of which only 495 (67.5%) were put into prison and 237 (32.3%)
were released on probation (the press release dated 1 March 2017 of the Ministry of Gender Equality and
Family).
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The data presented by the Ministry of Education to the National Assembly in 2016 showed that the
cases of sexual violence against students were on the rise, from 892 in 2013 to 1,306 in 2014. It was also
revealed that, during the same period, 87% of the student victims suffered sexual violence from other 'students'.
In response, the relevant government agencies, including the Ministry of Education, the Ministry of Gender
Equality and Family and the National Police Agency, jointly announced the Measures to Prevent Sexual
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