a b The labour market is segmented into regular and non-regular workers, who earn only 62% as much per hour as regular workers, boosting inequality and relative poverty. Women account for a disproportionate share of non-regular workers, thus discouraging female employment. (p.12) The employment of women is constrained by the limited take-up of maternity and parental leave and the availability of high-quality childcare. Career breaks for women widen the gender wage gap, which is the largest in the OECD. Increase the take-up of maternity and parental leave systems by enforcing compliance and raising the benefit level for parental leave. Enhance childcare quality by making accreditation mandatory and strengthening competition. (p.13) Questions suggested 18. Although the Government has taken many policy actions to increase employment rates for women and young persons in the past years, it seems that the actions taken after the CESCR’s last review, particularly in view of a range of statistical indicators for the recent 3 years, were not effective enough. Accordingly, it appears that the existing policy measures concerning female and youth employment need to be thoroughly reviewed for improvement. Please specify the Government’s views, assessment and future plan to increase expenditures in this regard. 19. It seems that the issue of work and family balance has not been fully addressed even in the public sector where workers have a relatively better working environment than their counterparts in the private sector. It is necessary that public organizations and institutions should take the lead in reinforcing monitoring and supervision to prevent violations of the legal requirements concerning hours of work and, at the same time, working time should be reduced to create more jobs in the whole society. Please submit specific data on the current conditions of the Government’s policy measures concerning childcare services (including the data on the take-up of parental leave by gender and by establishment size in public and private sector) and the Government’s future plan to improve the current conditions. Issue 5: Sexual Harassment, and Discrimination and Hate Speech against Women Current status 20. According to the NHRCK, the number of the complaints filed about sexual harassment in 2016 totalled 173 and effective remedial actions were taken for 38 of the filed cases. Sexual harassment complaints filed to the NHRCK and the cases remedied in 2016 Remedies given Total 173 21. subtotal 38 recom concil mend iation ation 19 4 invest igatio n reque st 1 No remedies crimi nal charg e 1 conse nsual settle ment 4 remed ies befor sube total decisi on 9 135 dismis sed 114 transf erred 2 rejecte d 19 Sexual harassment at workplace refers to sexual harassment which is committed by an employer or 6 / 25