Both genders in Korea have started to enjoy similar levels of higher and planned education. Recently, women's ability to get the “high paying job” has been enhanced. However, the marriage bar still exists as a major obstacle. This paper examines when and why female workers have left the labor force due to marriage, child birth, and caring and also investigates unemployed female workers' needs toward pursuing the labor force participation.
First of all, this study analyzes the quit-and-return work pattern of the female workers due to marriage, child birth, and caring using the national labor statistics.
Secondly, in terms of economic growth, this study also examines the employment trends of the female workers and predicts the employment scale and the specific job areas which the unemployed women with the higher education levels can get into. In addition, it performs the survey on investigating the women with career interruption's needs for re-entering the labor force.
Finally, this study discusses the several government supports and policies for generating a lot of jobs of public and private sectors toward re-entry of women with career interruption.
The study results that the labor force participation patters of female workers are changed, compared to last decade. Specifically, the educated female workers are entering the various high paying jobs, such as financial areas. Also, the female dominated jobs are getting decreased. However, when women with career interruption for 3-5 years can return to labor market, most of them are rejoining the low paying jobs regardless the educational levels.
The job seeking needs of women with career interruption are various. Their first priority jobs are related on management, accountant, office clerk sectors, regardless the educational levels and the previous work experiences.
Some of them(16%) want to part-time jobs, however, most of them are seeking to the regular jobs. Also, their needs toward vocational education are great but some of them have a little experiences.
In conclusion, the government has to support for developing the various vocational education programs and advices for their career plans. On the other hands, the government has to provide financial supports for enterprises in public sector.？
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