WASHINGTON, July 4 (Korea Bizwire) — A U.S. bill is seeking to express concerns over the proposed abolishment of South Korea’s Ministry of Equality and Family, the bill showed Monday. The House of Representatives bill on the 2023 budget for the state department will also urge the secretary of state to remain “actively engaged” in promoting [...]
SEOUL, April 19 (Korea Bizwire) — More than half of South Korean people think women are not treated equally to men, a government survey showed Tuesday. According to the quinquennial government study, 53.4 percent of respondents said South Korea is not an equal society for women, down from 62.6 percent tallied in 2016. By gender, [...]
SEOUL, March 17 (Korea Bizwire) — Amid a major public divide over the issue of President-elect Yoon Suk-yeol’s vow to abolish the Ministry of Gender and Equality, two-thirds of South Koreans in their 20s believed that gender equality policies should be prioritized on the government’s agenda, a women’s think tank said Wednesday. The Korean Women’s [...]
Rueil-Malmaison (France), Jan. 26 (Korea Bizwire) - Schneider Electric, the global leader in the digital transformation of energy management and automation, today announced its inclusion in the 2022 Bloomberg Gender-Equality Index (GEI), for the fifth year in a row. Schneider Electric is one of 418 companies across 45 countries and regions to join the 2022 Bloomberg GEI, which measures [...]
SEOUL, Jan. 21 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea’s national gender equality level improved for the fifth straight year in 2019, as more women were appointed to senior government posts and committees, a government report showed Thursday. The country’s gender equality index stood at 73.6 out of 100 in 2019, inching up 0.5 points from the [...]
SEOUL, March 5 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea’s gender ministry said Thursday that it will make constant efforts to increase public awareness of gender equality and strengthen the social safety net for minorities this year. In a 2020 policy plan submitted to the presidential office, the Ministry of Gender Equality and Family said its yearly [...]
SEOUL, Jan. 25 (Korea Bizwire) — South Koreans felt traditional holidays, which some criticize for putting too much pressure on women, are becoming fairer for both genders, a poll showed Saturday. Asked what they thought about gender equality within families during the Chuseok holiday last year, 43.2 percent said they felt circumstances have improved in [...]
SEOUL, Oct. 18 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korean teenagers have different perspectives on gender equality based on their gender, according to a recent survey. The National Youth Policy Institute conducted a survey of 9,008 teenagers, during which only 86.2 percent of male respondents agreed to the proposition that it is uncomfortable for male employees to [...]
SEOUL, Oct. 14 (Korea Bizwire) — The Seoul Metropolitan Government (SMG) announced Saturday that it will create guidelines to improve the gender wage gap. In the future, the city will reorganize the gender equality wage implementation guidelines of the Ministry of Gender Equality and Family to suit the city and develop self-diagnosis tables that can [...]
SEOUL, Oct. 11 (Korea Bizwire) – The Korean National Police Agency (KNPA) has drastically refined its own administrative rules, removing unnecessary gender distinctions contained in regulations or rules and revising terms containing gender stereotypes. Accordingly, one of the mascots symbolizing police officers is expected to change into pants next year instead of a skirt. Two [...]