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- The participation rate of the woman’s economical activities is very low when compared to the man developed countries
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Korea U.S.A England Denmark Australia OECD Average 54.8% 69.3% 70.3% 76.7% 82.9% 60.8% - Other than the developed country (Reverse U type), the M curve phenomenon that many women experience the discontinuance of job experience due to the housekeeping and the burden of the childcare, ETC. is continued and the phenomenon of low degree in the working condition is clear ※ 68%(68million persons) of the non-economic activities population, 99 million persons give up the economic activities
- The marriage rate of the women who graduated from the universities (60.2%) is very low when compared
to the average(82.3%, 2005) of the OECD countries, They tend to give up getting the job again after the
discontinuance of job experience(L curve) The low quality of the women employment
- As for the middle and small enterprise field, the miss-matching phenomenon called ‘While the women are having the harder time getting job, the companies are having the harder time hiring people’ exists.
- ‘The job of the social service field’ that has the big potential creation of woman’s job is insufficient.
- The irregular job’s rate of the female workers very high actual circumstance. - The training of the woman resources and the maximization of revitalization of them are needed for the
leap of the developed economy as the country’s growing power
- The Infra expansion for the development increase of the female job ability is needed :
「 The government builds the development cooperation promotion system of the
woman resources」 
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Cause Measure Assigned Department Rearing of children and Housekeeping burden Support of childcare and learning after school Ministry for health, welfare and family affairs, Ministry of Educational Science and Technology It is difficult to get the good job that adolescent women want Custom-job training for the women who graduated from the universities and development of job experience Ministry of Gender Equality, Ministry of Labor Difficult to reenter the labor market after the discontinuance of the job experience Establishment of the overall employment support system for the women of the job experience discontinuance Ministry of Gender Equality, Ministry of Labor Poor the working condition and environment of women Equal Personnel administration of the both sexes Ministry of Labor, Ministry of Gender Equality Coexistence support of Job and home Ministry for health, welfare and family affairs, Ministry of Labor, Ministry of Gender Equality The woman-friendly working environment composition Ministry of Gender Equality, Ministry of Labor
- Purpose
- Act on Promotion of Economic Activities of Career - Interrupted Women contributes to the economic independence and the self realization and the continuous development through
the promotion of economic activity such as women of career interruption. - Promotion Background
- The women’s economic activity rate of Korea ('07 54.8%) is the lowest level of the OECD countries and the Career Interruption due to childcare and housekeeping and the difficulty
of re-employment is the main course. - Therefore, the duties of the nation and local autonomous entities and the legal basis of the policy promotion to promote the economic activity such as women of career interruption need to be prepared. - Promotion Process
- The National Assembly voted for the Act on Promotion of Economic Activities of Career
- Interrupted Women (May. 16th, 2008) and announced it (Jun. 05th, 2008).
※ The Ministry of Gender Equality and the Ministry of Labor commonly enacted the law.
- Enacted and pronounced the enforcement ordinance and the enforcement regulations
of the Act on Promotion of Economic Activities of Career
- Interrupted Women (Dec. 03rd, 2008)
- Enforced the Act on Promotion of Economic Activities of Career - Interrupted Women
(Dec. 6th, 2008) - Main Content
- The applicable object of the bill is the women who stopped the economic activity because of pregnancy, childbirth and child care, ETC or never experience any economic activity
(Law Article 2)
- Established and enforced the basic law of the Act on Promotion of Economic
Activities of Career
- Interrupted Women (Law Article 4)
- Make an effort to construct the labor environment of the business owner, research the actual condition related to the economic activity such as women of career interruption, select the promising job, support the entry, support the internship.
Prevention regulations of career interruption (Law Articles 3,7,9,11,12)
- More clearly prescribe the function of the administrative support system such as the support center for women of career interruption. (Law Article 14)
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