「Inclusive Korea 2018」 Seeking a New Policy Paradigm for Inclusion, Innovation and Peace
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[5-2] Gender Equality Policy for Sustainable Democratic Society
KWON Insook2018.05.18
Session 5. Sustainable Balanced Development and Social Integration
Presentation 2. Gender Equality Policy for Sustainable Democratic Society
KWON Insook President of Korean Women’s Development Institute
□ There is a global consensus that gender equality is not only a matter of human rights and social justice, but a premise for a sustainable society.
○ According to the OECD, if the current level of gender gap in the labor market is maintained, South Korea's per capita GDP will increase only by 2.82% per year by 2025. However, if gender gap in the labor market decreases by 25%, GDP per capita will grow by 3.01%. If the gap closes down by 50%, it will grow by 3.30%.
□ The recent “MeToo movement” that has rapidly spread within the Korean society manifests the necessity of gender equality policies to fundamentally improve gender inequality in Korea.
○ The “MeToo movement” is a resistance to deeply rooted gender stereotypes, practices, and hierarchical organizational culture that have placed women in the workplace as objects of sexual entertainment.
○ Even before the “MeToo movement”, young women have strongly criticized misogyny, violence against women, and low fertility policies that instrumentalize women's bodies, and actively insisted on new gender policies such as abolition of abortion and adoption of compulsory feminist education in elementary, middle and high schools.
□ In order to solve the problems of gender inequality that hinders the sustainability of our society, it is necessary to promote the following agendas as transformative gender equality policies, not as welfare ones.
○ Establishment of an independent entity to rectify gender inequality
○Transformation of low fertility policy paradigm from a perspective of raising fertility rate towards that of ensuring birth choice
○ Establishment of a mid to long term roadmap to close the gender wage gap
○ Expansion in the proportion of gender experts in the Presidential Staff and ensuring of equal number of men and women in the Cabinet
○ Establishment of a mid to long term roadmap and a “Total Care Center” to strengthen public service of children, elderly people, people with disabilities, and patients
○Establishment of unassented adultery law and abolition of abortion law
○ Establishment of Gender Equality Committee under the President and Gender Equality Policy Officer in each ministry
Presentation 2. Gender Equality Policy for Sustainable Democratic Society
KWON Insook President of Korean Women’s Development Institute
□ There is a global consensus that gender equality is not only a matter of human rights and social justice, but a premise for a sustainable society.
○ According to the OECD, if the current level of gender gap in the labor market is maintained, South Korea's per capita GDP will increase only by 2.82% per year by 2025. However, if gender gap in the labor market decreases by 25%, GDP per capita will grow by 3.01%. If the gap closes down by 50%, it will grow by 3.30%.
□ The recent “MeToo movement” that has rapidly spread within the Korean society manifests the necessity of gender equality policies to fundamentally improve gender inequality in Korea.
○ The “MeToo movement” is a resistance to deeply rooted gender stereotypes, practices, and hierarchical organizational culture that have placed women in the workplace as objects of sexual entertainment.
○ Even before the “MeToo movement”, young women have strongly criticized misogyny, violence against women, and low fertility policies that instrumentalize women's bodies, and actively insisted on new gender policies such as abolition of abortion and adoption of compulsory feminist education in elementary, middle and high schools.
□ In order to solve the problems of gender inequality that hinders the sustainability of our society, it is necessary to promote the following agendas as transformative gender equality policies, not as welfare ones.
○ Establishment of an independent entity to rectify gender inequality
○Transformation of low fertility policy paradigm from a perspective of raising fertility rate towards that of ensuring birth choice
○ Establishment of a mid to long term roadmap to close the gender wage gap
○ Expansion in the proportion of gender experts in the Presidential Staff and ensuring of equal number of men and women in the Cabinet
○ Establishment of a mid to long term roadmap and a “Total Care Center” to strengthen public service of children, elderly people, people with disabilities, and patients
○Establishment of unassented adultery law and abolition of abortion law
○ Establishment of Gender Equality Committee under the President and Gender Equality Policy Officer in each ministry
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