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Last year, it was found that male employees of major conglomerates received an average of 40% more than female employees.
In terms of the amount, the annual salary is about 30 million won more, but reporter Jae Hee-won investigated why there is such a difference between men and women within the same wage system.
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This is the average salary of an employee disclosed in the business report of a securities company.
Excluding executives, only general employees were counted, and male employees received 1 and a half to 4 times more than female employees even though they had the same job group and the same length of service at the company.
The company explained that the salaries are the same, but there are more men in managerial positions such as department heads, and the incentives are different.
[Kim Jong-jin/Senior Research Fellow, Korea Labor and Social Research Institute: It is a common phenomenon in Korea that wages differ (according to gender) even when comparing similar cases.
There is a glass wall that implicitly
separates core and non-core tasks by gender.
It was 10,000 won and 71.1 million won for women.
The amount was 30 million won, a difference of 1.43 times.
It is likely that this gap is narrowing from year to year.
This is because more and more women are moving up to the executive level.
However, for one-third of the total, the disparity was wider than before, and nowhere did women receive more than men.
It is worth pondering that this situation continues even though men and women receive the same wage system within the same company.
If you look around the world, we are serious.
Although men earn 13.5% more than women in 29 major countries, we are overwhelmingly last at 31.5%.
It is time to structurally change the situation in which gender differences in roles and status lead to wage gaps.
(Video editing: Choi Eun-jin, CG: Ban So-hee, Choi Jae-young)