A record high 63 percent of women aged between 15 and 64 held jobs in September, up 2 percentage points from a year earlier, according to a labor force survey by the Internal Affairs and Communications Ministry.
The rise reflects a growing number of companies hiring women as well as an increase in single working women amid the recent tendency to postpone marriage, it said, adding that an increase was particularly evident among women in their 30s.
However, the survey also showed that only about 40 percent of women continue working after the birth of their first child, indicating that efforts need to be made to provide support for families with children both at home and work.