KWDI Korean Women’s Development Institute

Study on the Establishment of the First Basic Plan on Gender Equality

 

Lee, Sooyeon
Hwang, Jungim
Ma, Kyoung Hee
Kim, Nanjue

 

This study aims to develop the draft of the First Basic Plan on Gender Equality. In 2014. the Framework Act on Women’s Development was restructured into the Framework Act on Gender Equality which began to be implemented in July, 2015 and requires its basic plan to be established. This basic plan needs to be faithful to the principles and philosophies of the Framework Act on Gender Equality and at the same time to present the goals and direction for its implementation by assessing the previous plans of women’s policies under the Framework Act on Women’s Development in terms of their accomplishments and limitations and the new policy environment under the new act.

This study contains the assessment of the previous women’s policies; the discussion of the possible contribution of the gender equality policies under the current stage of the national development, the policy’s relation to other policies, and the people’s expectation on and acceptance of the gender equality policies and the new global issues of gender equality initiated by U.N., E.U., and other international organizations; the direction of the basic plan such as goals, vision, categories, objects, and emphasis of the gender equality policies; the projects (7 upper level projects, 22 middle level projects and 74 practical projects; and finally examination of other countries’ (Germany, Sweden, and Norway) basic plans on gender equality.

The seven upper level projects are the increase of the female representation and participation, strengthening of female economic capacities, diffusion of work and family balance, eradication of violence and protection of human rights, gender equal welfare and health system, expansion of gender equal consciousness and culture, and augmentation of implementation capacity for gender equality and gender mainstreaming policies.