Experts point out that this is why women's average wages are lower than men's in South Korea

Experts have analyzed that the wage gap between men and women in South Korea continues despite the increase in the female employment rate because women are overemployed in "care work."
The National Human Rights Commission of Korea (NHRC) held a seminar titled "The Current Status of Gender Wage Gap and
At the 'Announcement of Survey Results on Solutions and Policy Discussion Meeting', Seoul National University Sociology Department Professor Kwon Hyun-ji said, "In industries with a high proportion of female workers, such as the health and social welfare services industries, gender pay is a big issue.
According to data from the Ministry of Employment and Labor, the proportion of women working in the health and social welfare service sector, which includes care work, is expected to reach 82.2% by 2023.
Professor Kwon said, "We need policies to ease the concentration of women in the care sector and reduce the gender gap in this sector, and policies to reduce the concentration of men in high-wage sectors.
"Policies to expand the inclusion of women must be implemented at the same time," he said. "In particular, considering that the government is the de facto employer in the social services and welfare sectors,
"Comprehensive measures to improve gendered employment patterns, wage systems, and gender weighting by job grade in the service sector are needed."
Professor Kwon Hyewon of the Department of Business Administration at Dongduk Women's University said, "Care work is a female
Care work is devalued as something that women do, and female-dominated sectors are perceived as low-paid jobs with no path to career advancement.
"We need to create a system to improve the working conditions of low-wage female service workers," she said. Shin Hye-jeong, an activist with the Korean Women's Association, said, "Care work is a women's job both at home and in society.
"It's seen as a 'cheap' job, but only by reevaluating gendered jobs can the gender wage gap be eliminated."