Though Ms Park has just become South Korea’s first female president, the excitement over that should be short-lived. Among her cabinet nominees only the minister for women and minister for maritime affairs are women. This remains a country where gender equality is a distant dream. South Korea has the highest median male-female pay gap in the OECD. Future generations of Korean women seem likely to judge this president more on what she does about this than on her gender itself. Article
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