Making Women-Friendly Cultural Facilities: How to Establish and Run Childcare Service in the Performance Facilities
Providing childcare service is one of the ways to make the cultural facilities such as the performance center women-friendly. Many women who raise pre-schoolers are prohibited from going to the performance facilities and lose chances to participate in cultural activities. This study aims at making cultural centers women-friendly by providing measures to establish and run childcare service in the performance facilities.
This study utilizes research methods of survey and interviews. We sent questionnaires to 732 cultural facilities nationwide to investigate their situation of childcare service in case they provide it and obstacles to the service in case they don't. Out of 209 performance facilities which participated in the survey, only 14.4%(30) provide childcare service. Out of 179 performance facilities without childcare, 50 have intention to establish it. Forty of them feel the necessity to run childcare center, however they are kept from running it due to either lack of space, financial expense or difficulty in securing teachers.
The expense of running childcare center can be secured as follows: 1. by charging the service fee 2. by utilizing its own budget 3. by acquiring the government assistance and 4. by relying on volunteer workers.
1.The paid childcare service is possible by offering on average 8 prformances monthly and charging 5,000 won for each service and securing a minimum of 8 children each time.
2.The profitable performance facility can rely on its own budget for childcare expense. Six performances per week requires about 20 million Won's annual budget for teachers' salary.
3.The performance facility which cannot afford running childcare with its own budget can rely on the government subsidy for childcare. This facility should be able to provide rationals for the subsidy, however. For example, the facility located outside Seoul may find it difficult to persuade the audience to pay for childcare service even though the core audience have preschoolers.
4.The cultural facilites located in a remote area should provide childcare service even though they have very few performances. They can utilize volunteers as childminders.
The cultural facilities can procure teachers utilizing the ministry of culture, sports, and tourism's program of dispatching professional art teachers to social education institutes. For this, the ministry of culture, sports, and tourism needs to qualify the performance facilities as a candidate for the art teacher dispatch program.
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