SEOUL, March 8 (Korea Bizwire) – The Seoul Metropolitan Government announced plans to raise gender equality awareness and ensure the safety of women in Seoul yesterday in the run-up to International Women’s Day. The government’s detailed plan includes a women’s safety app which will allow police to use surveillance cameras for monitoring and dispatch officers [...]
SEOUL, Feb. 21 (Korea Bizwire) – South Korea ranks among the lowest in terms of women’s economic empowerment, with its pay gap between men and women estimated to need more than 100 years to close if the current pace continues, an annual report said Tuesday. The Women In Work Index 2017 released by the PricewaterhouseCoopers [...]
TORONTO, ONTARIO, Jan. 25 (Korea Bizwire) – BMO Financial Group today announced that it is one of 52 firms recognized in the 2017 Bloomberg Financial Services Gender-Equality Index. The index provides investors and organizations with standardized aggregate data across company gender statistics, employee policies, gender-conscious product offerings and external community support and engagement. Those included [...]
SEOUL, Sept. 26 (Korea Bizwire) – The Korea Communications Standards Commission (KCSC) announced Sunday that will be revising its regulations on broadcasting deliberation in an effort to promote gender equality on television programs and for online video content. The amendment comes as a measure to combat Korea’s recently-expanding gender hatred culture, and will ban all [...]
SEOUL, July 28 (Korea Bizwire) – “We just put the biggest crack in that glass ceiling yet,” said Democratic presidential nominee Hilary Clinton during the Democratic convention in Philadelphia on Tuesday. Korea cracked a similar glass ceiling in 2012, with President Park Geun-hye becoming the first woman president of Korea. But according to experts, Korea [...]
SEOUL, July 25 (Korea Bizwire) – It has been 70 days since the Gangnam Station murder, which sparked the ongoing controversy over gender crimes in South Korea. The recent issue of a voice actress from the online game “Closer” being fired for wearing a ‘feminist’ t-shirt has started another fiery battle of the sexes on social [...]
SEOUL, June 22 (Korea Bizwire) – South Korea on Wednesday unveiled a series of measures aimed at creating a more equal society for women, about a month after a woman was killed by a stranger in a high-traffic neighborhood in Seoul. The murder sent a shockwave through a nation that has made strides in recent [...]
SEOUL, July 10 (Korea Bizwire) –“Yeogi”, a new gender equality library, will open on July 14, at Seoul Women’s Plaza in Daebang-dong, Dongjak-gu, Seoul, Korea. The library will hold material related to feminist movements, women’s policies and the changes made regarding gender equality. The opening ceremony will be held on July 14 at 2pm with [...]