After taking office Lee has vociferated about "gender equality" and "creation of jobs for women" but they are prevented from having opportunities in society.

At least 550,000 women lost their jobs from November 2008 to April 2009 due to the "government's" policy against women and workers and pro-big business policy. Women accounted for more than 211,000 out of the 219,000 reported jobless in May of 2009, an indication of the women's plight in south Korean society.

In case women get jobs, most of them are part-timers who are constantly exposed to the danger of discharge.

The percentage of south Korean women's employment in November of 2010 was 42 percentage but two thirds of them were part-time workers and 70 percent of them work in poor sectors.

Those women who barely managed to find jobs are subject to discrimination.

The plight of women in south Korea is so miserable that even a publication deplored 77.6 percent of women workers can hardly eke out their living with their meager wages and are unable to get rid of poverty no matter how hard they work.

Due to the daily worsening discrimination in society, women are suffering under the ever-increasing burden of child care and household chores.

Lee Myung Bak made election commitment that he would pursue the policy for socially preferential treatment for women such as "improvement of the system for temporary leave after child delivery" and "building childcare facilities." Quite contrary to his commitment, he unrolled a "basic plan for low childbirth" under the pretext of creating favorable environment for child delivery and care, enforcing a policy of discriminating against women by posing a threat to the employment of women workers.

Pursuant to the policy, enterprises pay 26 percent less wages to the women who have leave after child delivery than those who do not get leave. 71 percent of the part-time women workers are compelled to give up their jobs which they got with so much effort owing to childbirth.

As one has to spend more than 200,000 U.S. dollars to bring one's child up until university graduation, an increasing number of women in south Korea prefer to remain single and even married women refuse to give birth to babies. This tendency is prevalent in society.

According to a recent opinion poll conducted among young south Korean people, 39 percent of girls and boys at their twenties said they would not be bound to marriage and 26 percent of the married women said a child is not so important in their life.

The number of married women who refused to give birth to babies in Seoul, Pusan, Taegu and other big cities trebled in 2010 due to the policy of despising women, compared with that five years ago and their number is on the yearly increase.

An increasing number of women choose crimes and suicides, marginalized in society. The number of the south Korean women who became prostitutes in Japan, the U.S. and other countries, unable to ensure destitution, is 1.25 million, an all time high in the history of the successive puppet regimes.

The women's suicide rate tops the world list.