(LEAD) labor statistics-gender ministry (ATTN: UPDATES with additional survey results)By Kim Hyun-soo SEOUL, Sept. 6 (Yonhap) -- The employment rate for women exceeded the 60 percent mark for the first time last year, but the wage gap between genders still remains high, a government report showed Wednesday. The employment index for women aged 15 to 64 reached 60 percent in 2022, up 7.3 percentage points from 2010, but 22.8 percent of them had low-paying jobs, nearly twofold the rate of men, according to data collected by the Ministry of Gender Equality and Family.

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