Template:Did you know nominations/Gender inequality in South Korea


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The result was: promoted by Cwmhiraeth (talk) 05:22, 10 July 2016 (UTC)

Gender inequality in South Korea

 * ... that due to significant gender inequality in South Korea, South Korean women earn on average only half of what the males earn?


 * Reviewed: Christy Jenkins

Created/expanded by Piotrus (talk). Self-nominated at 11:26, 22 June 2016 (UTC).

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 * Comment. Clearly, the bot does not understand the concept of quotation. --Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus&#124; reply here 01:17, 27 June 2016 (UTC)


 * Symbol redirect vote 4.svg Full review by human reviewer needed. BlueMoonset (talk) 00:23, 4 July 2016 (UTC)


 * Symbol question.svg The article is well written, and the DYKReviewbot clearly does not understand that quoting is okay if attributed in-text, which is what the article does. I am relying on bot's check for the rest of DYK checklist. There is an issue with the hook though. I can neither find in the article what the hook claims, nor can I find support for the hook in a WP:RS. The hook claims "on average only half", but this source which the article uses, states "this means female workers made just 62.6% of what their male counterparts did." Could you explain this, and appropriately clarify/revise the article? Ms Sarah Welch (talk) 00:24, 6 July 2016 (UTC)
 * There is also the "wage equality for similar work (0.55)". How about ALT1:


 * ... ALT1: ...that due to significant gender inequality in South Korea, South Korean women earn on average only slightly over a half of what the males earn?
 * Symbol question.svg On page 220 of the WEF's GGG-2015 source in the article, 0.55 is the score, but the sample average is 0.6 for South Korea. The score seems to be a statistical construct, see pages 6-7. Please check and clarify. Ms Sarah Welch (talk) 11:49, 6 July 2016 (UTC)
 * Sample average refers to the average score across all the countries in the GGIndex. Score of 0.55 means female to male ratio of 0.55 in this context, so in other words, females in SK earn 55% of what males earn, ceteris paribus.--Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus&#124; reply here 13:35, 6 July 2016 (UTC)
 * I will accept that clarification, in good faith. What about the 62.6% claim in this source that refers to a OECD study – should that be mentioned in the article for NPOV? I will be more comfortable with an ALT hook which replaces "only slightly over a half" with "55%". Ms Sarah Welch (talk) 14:01, 6 July 2016 (UTC)
 * 55% refers to the 2015 GG index, whereas as you pointed out, the OECD gives a somewhat higher one for about 63%, which I've now added to the text. As we have two different numbers, I do think a "slightly over a half", which covers both of them, is better then citing only one number. Alternatively, we could do ALT2 below. --Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus&#124; reply here 18:16, 6 July 2016 (UTC)


 * ... ALT2: ...that the significant gender inequality in South Korea is illustrated by Global Gender Gap Report indicator which shows that South Korean women earn on average only about 55% of what the males earn?
 * Symbol voting keep.svg for ALT2. Thanks for adding the OECD data, as that improves the NPOV of the article. I am unconfortable with ALT1's "slightly over", which could be interpreted as 50.1% or 51%, when the actual is likely between 55 to 62%. I have struck out "only" in ALT2, but leave it to the nominator and DYK admins to reinstate it if they want to. Thanks for an interesting, topical article. Ms Sarah Welch (talk) 18:35, 6 July 2016 (UTC)