SEOUL, May 27 (Xinhua) -- The ratio of female workers among South Korean companies rose for the past five years though the female employment rate remained low, an economic think tank report showed Monday.
The percentage of female employees to the total workforce in the country's top 600 listed firms in terms of revenue in the nonfinancial sector rose to 23.8 percent in 2018 from 23.0 percent in 2014, according to the Korea Economic Research Institute (KERI) under the Federation of Korean Industries (FKI).
The number of female workers increased from 263,000 to 282,000 in the same period.
The female ratio among the education services companies increased the most by 3.4 percentage points for the past five years.
The figures for the electricity and gas, construction, arts and sports, and business facility and rent services industries all rose for the past five years, but those for the science and technology, and the agricultural and fishery industries declined in the period.
Meanwhile, the ratio of the country's female employees to the total female population stood at 56.9 percent as of 2017.
It was lower than the average 64 percent among members of the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD).
