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Continuous reporting on the polarization of Corona, today (10th), we will look at the problem of female employment after the pandemic. Looking back on past economic downturns, the number of men's jobs has decreased significantly in the construction and manufacturing industries, but the situation is different in the Corona situation.



Reporter Seo-Hyun Ahn reports.



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Kim Jung-Shin was unable to return to work after taking maternity leave last year when the child entered elementary school.



I would have returned to work in September of last year if the original plan had gone, but I had to quit the company due to the spread of Corona 19.



[Kim Jung-Shin/Housewife: It is not a situation where you can make a comeback. I said it was a school day, but there were too many things that were changed to remote classes as the quarantine rules suddenly changed through text messages.]



Even now, a year after leaving the company, every day is full of variables.



The desire to work again is like a chimney, but it is not easy in the current situation of Corona 19.



[(At Taekwondo academy) Go home (What? Do you want to go home for quarantine?) Yes, quarantine measures.]



As you can see, the employment impact from COVID-19 was more severe for women than for men.



This is the KDI report. Due to the spread of COVID-19 and social distancing, the number of jobs that deal with customers, such as accommodation and education services, has decreased relatively, but more women were employed in these face-to-face service industries.



The 'work demand' of women itself has decreased.



At the same time, the supply of 'women's labor' has also decreased.



In other words, the number of women who want to work has also decreased, because childcare facilities have been suspended due to the spread of COVID-19 and schools have been closed, which has greatly increased the burden of child care.



It means that the number of women who have had to quit their careers is increasing.



Even if you are lucky enough to get out of your care gap by working from home, things are not going well.



Whether to take care of children, work at the company, or work at home, the so-called 'home mom' has no time to rest.



[Heo Mi-yeon / Telecommuter: To be honest, I think it's harder than a working mom. I’m a working mom, I’m a working mom, I



look after my children,

and I’m a ‘home mom’ who does everything at the same time (now), but I don’t really have any time off.] After

Corona 19, I looked at the care time of dual-income families and looked after both women and men. As the time spent on , the gap between the two grew even greater.



There is a situation in which we have no choice but to constantly weigh retirement.



[Fifty-three days conductor / Bank of Korea Bureau hired Analysis Team: A significant part time female jobs lost has forecast that due to the extremely high probability be replaced with automated diffusion can be difficult to recover the female employment level in the past Corona 19 previous levels -



Childcare If policy support to alleviate the burden of care is not supported, such as facility expansion and flexible working hours, the return of the 'working mother' generation, who could not return to work due to COVID-19, will continue to be slow.



(Video coverage: Tae-Hoon Kim, VJ: Cho-A Kim, video editing: Young-Sam Jeong, Writer: Soo-Bin Lee, Ji-Yul Lee, CG: Seong-Yong Hong, Jae-Young Choi, Jae-Eun Seong, Si-Won Jeong, Ji-Hyeon Ahn)