Press conference calling for gender equality policy for the 4·7 re-election▶ Click here for a larger view
On the 6th, a day before the 4·7 re-election, the women’s group urged, “We want a market that can solve the problem of violent sexual violence, which is the cause of this by-election, and prevent recurrence.”
On this morning, the Korean Women’s Association held a press conference in front of Seoul City Hall asking for a gender equality policy from the candidates for the by-election under the title of’Making a Gender Equality Seoul and Busan’, and said, “This election has been transformed into an election in which gender issues are missing.” “I communicate the demands of feminist citizens to all those who have made it,” he said.
The Women’s Community Association appealed, “Respond to the demands of citizens who want the market to create a gender-equal working environment so that victims of violent sexual violence can return to their daily lives by revealing the faults of the former mayor and taking action on the secondary damage problem.” did.
“We want a market that will change the gender-discriminatory organizational structure and prepare policies to expand women’s representation by practicing gender equality in life, not just in words,” he said. “We oppose discrimination and hate against minorities, We want a market that seeks justice,” he added.
At a press conference, the Women’s Association also released the results of receiving responses by sending the candidates a’Gender Election Guide’, a questionnaire that verifies the gender equality awareness of candidates for re-election.
This questionnaire asks what to do to expand women’s representation, whether there are measures to block secondary damage, and whether they have actively stopped the situation when a statement of sexual violence or gender discrimination was made in an intimate relationship. It was delivered to five candidates for the mayor.
Candidate Ji-hye Shin, Jin-ah Kim, and Myung-Sook Song were among the candidates for the mayor of Seoul, and Young-jun Kim and Jeong-Hyun Roh among the candidates for the Busan Mayor sent a response within the deadline.
“The Democratic Party candidate Park Young-sun and the people’s power candidate Oh Se-hoon, who are mentioned as the leading candidates for the mayor of Seoul, did not respond to inquiries. Among the candidates for the Busan Mayor, Park Hyeong-jun, the leading candidate, the people’s power, did not have a response.”
He added, “For the candidates without answers, we directly reviewed the publicly disclosed pledges,” he said. “There was no candidate including this agenda within the five major pledges of the two major political party candidates.”
The Women’s Association said, “Citizens’ demands to talk about’gender election’ in this election phase have been thoroughly ignored.” I wasn’t able to talk enough.
Seoul Mayor Kim Dan-bi, activist for the co-action of violent sexual violence, said, “How do you know how powerful local government heads are and how to check them, how to improve gender unequal working conditions such as’planting assistants’, which have been demanded for granted by female workers, etc. All the must-have stories are missing.”
He argued, “All of the major pledges of the great two parties have become real estate policies, and the issue of gender equality has turned into a tool of political conflict that criticizes other parties or candidates.”
‘Lauri’, a participant who claimed to be a’feminist citizen’, said, “Any political party that pretends to be inaudible or absent by ignoring the legitimate voice to come up with a long-term vision on women-related agendas and sexual violence issues is in fact not qualified to present a candidate for this election.” Criticized.
Korean Women’s Friendship Association’for gender equality in Seoul and Busan’▶ Click here for a larger view
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