37. Are there any concrete measures to increase the proportion of women in the ranks of senior officers in the armed forces, including temporary special measures? Issue 9: Gender Discrimination in the Labor Market, Including the Gender Wage Gap Current Status 38. The gender wage gap in the Korean labor market ranked top among the OECD countries since 1992 when the OECD began compiling statistics. In a MOGEF survey, the gender wage gap in listed corporations was 38.1 percent in 2021, and in public institutions, 26.3 percent. Such gaps result from various reasons: women are largely employed by small and medium-sized businesses, which only pay 54.5 percent of the amount paid to employees of large corporations; and the female-dominant industries pay 16.3 percent less than mixed-gender industries and 24.3 percent less than male-dominant industries. This can be explained as a result of structural gender discrimination, including women’s career interruptions due to a lack of public childcare services. 39. Irregular workers in the Korean labor market experience unfair treatment more often than regular workers, and more so for female employees than the males. According to the Economically Active Population Survey for Additional Investigation by Employment Type, the proportion of irregular female workers among all female wage workers was 47.4 percent in 2021, while the proportion of irregular male workers among all male wage workers was 31.0 percent. Furthermore, the average monthly wage of irregular female employees is only 63.5% of their male counterparts (as of 2020). Question 40. What are the measures the government envisages to reduce the extremely high gender wage gap women face in the labor market, in particular to reduce the high proportion of irregular women workers and to increase their low wages? Also, please provide information on ways to assist women workers to stay in the labor market without career interruptions. Issue 10: Absence of Measures to Eradicate Discrimination Against Sexual Minority Women Current Status 41. On March 16, 2022, the NHRCK presented its recommendations to the Prime Minister, the Minister of Health and Welfare, the Minister of the Interior and Safety, the Minister of Gender Equality and Family, and the Commissioner of Statistics Korea on the issue of sexual minorities, including their identification in the National Statistics Surveys and other factfinding researches, and the removal of the term transsexualism from the Classification of Mental Disorders from the “Korean Standard Classification of Diseases”. 9