“We are hiring a dumpling girl”… Positive response to law firm recruitment advertisement continues

Daeryun Law Firm announces ‘regular recruitment of women with (interrupted) experience’
 

In the law firm industry, where even professional female lawyers are not free from career interruptions, a law firm is attracting attention as it has announced that it will hire women with career interruptions.

According to the legal community on the 30th, early this month, Daeryun Law Firm (Liuhan) posted a notice for ‘permanent recruitment of women with (interrupted) experience.’

The recruitment fields are legal secretaries and legal clerks, and the qualifications are women whose careers have been interrupted due to pregnancy, childbirth, childcare leave, etc. Areas where you can work are about 40 locations across the country, including Yeouido, Seoul, Gyeonggi, Incheon, Daejeon, Chungcheong, Gyeongsang, Jeolla, and Gangwon.

This kind of recruitment announcement attracted attention and spread through the office worker community and mom cafes. Netizens who saw this responded positively, saying things like, ‘Just looking at the use of the term ‘woman with experience’ makes me feel careful,’ and ‘I wish other companies would make announcements like this more often.’

Daeryun plans to continuously recruit women whose careers have been interrupted until next year.

The reason why job advertisements for so-called 'hard-working women' received so much attention is because women's career breaks due to pregnancy, childbirth, and childcare are still considered a major social problem.

According to the employment status of married women in the regional employment survey for the first half of this year released by Statistics Korea last month, among the 7.65 million married women aged 15 to 54, there were 1.21 million women who had taken a career break, or about 15%.

When asked why they quit their jobs, the majority (41.1%) answered 'raising children', followed by marriage (24.9%) and pregnancy/childbirth (24.4%).

In fact, a law firm was embroiled in controversy over unfair dismissal by firing a female lawyer who tried to return to work after completing maternity and childcare leave in 2021. The law firm even filed a lawsuit to cancel the unfair dismissal relief judgment, claiming that it was “an old practice in the lawyer industry,” but lost the case in succession in the first and second trials.

An official in the legal industry said, “The fact that a job advertisement for a woman who had taken a career break was published in the law firm industry, which is considered very conservative compared to other occupations, was very surprising in itself,” and added, “I think it is an unusual move.”
 
Kim Kuk-il, CEO of Daeryun Law Firm (Limited), said, "Currently, Daeryun is working to create a family-friendly culture by expanding the maternity protection system and welfare systems for work-family balance," and added, "Through this recruitment, we plan to provide experienced women with opportunities to participate in economic activities and help them demonstrate their expertise and capabilities."

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