The glass ceiling for women here in Korea has gotten thicker... with only one female executive out of 1-hundred-63 executives last year.<br />Our Choi Si-young tells us more. <br /><br />South Korean business analyst firm CEO Score said Wednesday that last year there was only one female executive out of nearly two-hundred executives in thirty-five state-run companies.<br />That's less than one-percent.<br />The only female executive took up her position in January last year at Korea Land and Housing Corporation.<br />She was the first female executive in the state-run company's fifty-six year history.<br /><br />According to the report, the figures have been similar for the past five years. <br />In 2014, 2015 and 2017, only two female executives were appointed to senior management.<br />That number fell to one in 2018.<br /><br />The figures are a little better at the top 30 private firms by sales... where there were nearly three-hundred females,... out of nearly 10-thousand executives... in leadership roles last year.<br />That's still only three percent of the total.<br /><br />In March last year, the government announced that it would increase the number of female executives at state-run companies and other government organizations to twenty percent of the total senior management... by 2022.<br />But, it seems more needs be done to make that goal a reality.<br /><br />Choi Si-young, Arirang News. <br />
