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The purpose of this study is to statistically find determinants which make differences of career-broken women’s reemployment rate between capital and non-capital region. This study used Korea census of Population and Housing 2015 data and utilized a sample of women aged between 25 and 64 with premarital employment experience. By applying multivariate decomposition method, this study analyzed regional differences in career-broken women’s reemployment rate with endowment and residual effect. The study found that career-broken women in the non-capital region showed higher rate of being reemployed than those in the capital region. Main factors that made differences were number of kids, high school graduate, and own house variables for residual effect. In sum up, this study found that motivation of reemployment caused by regional gap in economic power and regional employment mismatch affects on the differences in career-broken women’s reemployment rate between the capital and non-capital regions. This study concludes with suggesting the policy direction to lessen the regional gap in career-broken women’s reemployment.