SEOUL, Sept. 11 (Korea Bizwire) — Despite growing awareness of gender equality among Koreans, the equality gap between men and women during the traditional holidays remains wide, a recent report has shown. According to an online survey of 2,000 citizens conducted by the Seoul Foundation for Women and Family during this year’s Lunar New Year [...]
SEOUL, Jun. 10 (Korea Bizwire) – Sex education is undergoing changes in and out of schools in South Korea. A series of sexual crimes and intensifying gender discrimination have led many to call for sex education that encompasses gender discussions, leading many teacher’s associations, civil groups, and startups to develop various curriculums to be taught at [...]
SEOUL, Apr. 30 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea will set up new departments dedicated to handling gender equality policies in eight government offices to better deal with sexual discrimination and abuse in the cultural and educational sectors, the gender ministry said Tuesday. Under a plan endorsed by the Cabinet , the new posts will be [...]
SEOUL, Jan. 15 (Korea Bizwire) — Over 40 percent of South Korean women in their 20s are surveyed to have deemed themselves as feminists, reflecting a social trend in which feminism is increasingly taking root among youngsters in a male-dominated Korean society, a women’s think tank said Tuesday. The Korean Women’s Development Institute conducted a [...]
GENEVA, Dec. 18 (Korea Bizwire) — The level of economic participation and opportunity of South Korean women is well below the world average, putting the country in 115th position out of 149 countries in terms of gender equality, according to a report released Tuesday by the World Economic Forum (WEF). The forum’s Global Gender Gap [...]
SEOUL, Jul. 3 (Korea Bizwire) — The majority of Seoul citizens believe women are largely responsible for household chores, according to a household survey released Tuesday by the Seoul Metropolitan Government. In the poll conducted in September last year on 42,687 Seoul citizens older than 15 in about 20,000 households, and 2,500 foreigners living in [...]
SEOUL, April 13 (Korea Bizwire) — Seoul Metropolitan Government officials are looking for citizens and companies who have contributed to gender equality as part of the 2018 Seoul Gender Equality Awards. The city government said on Friday it is seeking candidates until May 15for its gender equality awards, which will be given to both women and [...]
SEOUL, March 22 (Korea Bizwire) — Gender equality education is more impactful on the beliefs of boys compared to girls and of younger children rather than older, according to new research. The Korean Institute for Gender Equality, Promotion and Education (KIGEPE) conducted a study in which the organization investigated whether personal beliefs had changed from [...]
SEOUL, Dec. 20 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea’s gender equality level increased for the sixth straight year in 2016, as more men took paternity leave to take care of their children, a government report showed Wednesday. According to the report by the ministry of gender equality and family, the nation’s equality index stood at 72.7 [...]
SEOUL, March 28 (Korea Bizwire) – Twenty student groups from 12 universities in the Seoul metropolitan area are promoting a solidarity campaign dubbed the Penguin Project to bring changes to the local campus culture that privately, and sometimes openly, discriminates against women. The campaign’s title was inspired by a French book on sexual assault and [...]