NHRCK, analysis on the age of anchors hosting evening news programs of terrestrial and cable TV networks found that a majority of anchorwomen are in their 20s and 30s while a majority of anchormen are in their 40s and 50s. Gender and job imbalance is also serious as for news reporters and interviewers. The sex ratio of news reporters and interviewers is 3:7, indicating that the number of men is more than twice larger than that of women. By jobs, professional female interviewers are 5.8% while the figure is 20.8% for professional male interviewers. This means that when there are 100 interviewers on the new, 25 of them are professionals out of which 20 are men and five are women. The gender imbalance is also serious in the number of hosts and panels of talk program on current events with 90% of men and merely 10% of women. 96. Gender imbalance in media is related to the gender imbalance in the media workforce. According to data from the Ministry of Employment and Labor40, the female proportion of the total press workforce was as low as 16% in 2015. The Journalists Association of Korea41 researched the sex distribution of journalists at broadcasters (KBS, MBC, SBS, YTN) in 2016 and found a serious gender imbalance with 81.4% of men and 18.6% of women. The proportion of women decreases drastically with a longer length of service as the female proportion of journalists with 21 years of experience or longer is about five percent while the figure is 38.9% for journalists with one to five years of experience. In addition, as for first to third groups of panels in broadcasting regulators, three out of 27 panels are women at the Korea Communications Standards Commission and only one out of 15 panels at the Korea Communications Commission. It is hard to find a female director at KBS, MBC and EBS as well. It is urgently needed to develop measures for gender equality in media. [25] Need for Measures for Households Composed of Single Women including Housing Support 40 Re-quotation from “Female proportion of 16% at media companies, is discrimination to blame?” Kim Do-yeon <Media Today> (July 4th, 2015) 41 “Who is Korea’s TV news reporter of 2016?” <TV News Reporter>. Vol. 29, pp 6-9, TV News Reporter Editing Commission (2016)