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62.4% employment rate for women raising underage children is the highest ever

23% of women raising underage children, career break

22.7% of married women raising underage children.

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Among married women raising underage children, the proportion of working women and working mothers reached an all-time high.

However, one in four women raising underage children still has their careers cut off.

Lee Seung-eun reports.

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The employment rate of women between the ages of 15 and 54 raising children under the age of 18 reached an all-time high of 62.4%.

It is up 2.4 percentage points from a year ago.

Among married women aged 15 to 54, career breaks also fell to a record low of 1.125 million and 15.9 percent.

[Song Joon-haeng / Director of Employment Statistics at Statistics Korea: The age of women's first marriage and childbirth is on the rise. And women's perception of economic activity is also changing, and this is thought to be the result of a combination of government policy support for childcare and childbirth.

Still, childcare is a stumbling block to women's economic activities.

Among married women, the proportion of career-interrupted women rises to 23% if only they have underage children. (22.7%)
The younger the child
and the more children there are, the lower the employment rate.

If you raise a child under the age of six, the employment rate is only 50% if you have three or more children.

More than 95% of the reasons for career breaks include childcare (41.1%) and marriage (24.9%), pregnancy and childbirth (24.4%), and child education (4.7%).Childcare and housekeeping burdens are greater even if

days are spent.

According to the results of last year's survey, men spent 30.2 hours per week on housework, compared to 41.4 hours for women based on the manager level, who is in the middle of working.

We have no choice but to prefer flexible jobs.

The average working hours per week for working mothers raising underage children was 35.3 hours, nearly four hours less than for all workers (39.1 hours).

Policies should be strengthened to prevent increased economic activity from leading to a low birth rate, along with closing the wage gap between men and women, which is the largest among developed countries.

I'm YTN's Lee Seung Eun.

Jeong Jeong-yoon in video editingDesign Lee Na-young