KWDI Korean Women’s Development Institute

The United Nations (UN) adopted gender mainstreaming as a new strategic paradigm for women policies and led each government to apply gender impact assessment and gender responsive budget in policy-making at its 4th World Conference on Women in Beijing (1995). The Republic of Korea has chosen gender mainstreaming as its key strategy for women policies since the late 1990s. However, it failed to devise appropriate action plans before the legal framework for gender sensitive statistics was established through the revision of the basic law for the prosperity of women in 2002, and the gender responsive budget was prescribed in the 2006 Korean National Fiscal Act.
Herein, experts at home and abroad in gender mainstreaming were surveyed, holding an international academic symposium in order to devise appropriate theories and action plans in gender mainstreaming that are customized to Korean circumstances. High-ranking officials in Korea were also polled in order to identify the acceptance and promotion of gender mainstreaming in Korea's central and local governments, opening gender mainstreaming platforms in four major regions for discussions thereon. Based on the research, the application and acceptance of gender mainstreaming strategy were analyzed, devising plans to strengthen the legal system in connection therewith.

Keywords: Gender Mainstreaming, Gender Impact Assessment, Gender Responsive Budget, Gender Sensitive Statistics, Gender Mainstreaming Plans, Regional Platforms, and Gender Mainstreaming System.

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