53.4 % of S.Koreans say women treated unequally to men: survey

Over half of South Korean people said women are still treated unequally to men, a government survey showed Tuesday, reported Xinhua.

According to the quinquennial poll by the Ministry of Gender Equality and Family, 53.4 percent of respondents said South Korea is an unequal society for women in 2021. It was down from 62.6 percent tallied five years ago.

The poll was conducted last year on 8,358 people, including 4,351 women and 4,007 men, aged 15 or higher.

Female respondents in their 20s and 30s who thought that the country is not an equal society for women stood at 73.4 percent and 76.8 percent respectively, while the figures for male respondents in their 20s and 30s reached 29.2 percent and 40.7 percent each.

Those who said men are treated unequally to women reached 6.7 percent of female respondents and 17.0 percent of male respondents each.

Of the total, 68.9 percent said wives fully or mainly undertake household chores and childcare in the family.

Those who said men should be a main breadwinner of families came in at 29.9 percent of the total respondents in 2021, down from 42.1 percent in 2016.