recruiting youth interns or new employees. The Government maintains the
female share of civil servants above 30% through the gender equality goal in
recruitment system applied to the civil servant examination which does not exist
for other public organizations. Efforts to prevent discrimination against women in
the recruiting process by taking aggressive recruitment improvement measures
or applying the gender equality goal in the recruitment system at public
organizations and policies to improve the situation of gender discrimination in
recruitment at public organizations are required through the management of
gender ratio among interviewers when conducting job interviews.
[5] Improvement in Poor Structure of Women’s Employment (List of Issues 16, 17)
14. The previous administration set up the ‘Employment Rate 70% Roadmap’ and
carried out various policies including ‘Lifecycle Career Management Support Plan
for Female Workers’ as a major government project with an aim of increasing
women’s employment rate by 10%p. However, the result was proven insufficient.
The rate of increase in women’s employment has remained only at 2.3%p in
2016 and it has been much lower than the rate of increase in men’s employment
rate at approximately 20%p since 2013. The employment rate for women came
in the 29th place out of 35 OECD member countries in 2015.
<Table 2> Trend in employment rates by gender (Ages 15~64) since 2011
(Unit: %)
Gender/Year
2011
2012
2013
2014
2015
2016. 11.
Men
74.5
74.9
74.9
75.7
75.7
75.8
Women
53.1
53.5
53.9
54.9
55.7
56.2
(Source: Economically Active Population Survey, National Statistical Office, 2016)
15. The rates of employment between the ages 20 and 29 for both men and women
are similar at around 59%; however, the gender imbalance becomes greater at an
alarming rate after the age 30. This is believed to be due to women’s career
break for the childbirth and child care reasons. The rate of employment for men
in the 30s increases rapidly to 90%. On the contrary, the rate of employment for