South Korea: Systemic Gender, Age Discrimination at Work

Click to expand Image Cleaner at work in a Seoul metro station, Seoul, South Korea. © 2022 Shutterstock (Seoul) – Women in South Korea face systemic gender discrimination at every stage of their working lives, Human Rights Watch said in a report released today. These adverse impacts accumulate as women get older, and are compounded by systemic age discrimination, resulting in harm to their physical and mental health. The 92-page report, “Too Old and a Woman: Systemic Age and Gender Discriminatio