‘Mapo Women’s Network Activity Sharing Meeting’ Held, Commitment to Broad Activities Next Year

Local Residents, Activists, and Officials Gather to Share Annual Progress Activities

[Asia Economy Reporter Jongil Park] Mapo-gu (Mayor Yudonggyun) held the ‘2020 Mapo Women’s Network Activity Sharing Meeting’ last month on the 27th at the Jungbu Women’s Development Center located in Yonggang-dong, Mapo-gu.

The ‘Mapo Women’s Network’ is an organization that consistently conducts joint learning and discussions on women’s policies in Mapo-gu through regular monthly meetings. It discusses various policy issues of the district and shares gender equality policies through the participation of multiple local stakeholders.

This sharing meeting was prepared to review the activities of the grassroots women’s organization Mapo Women’s Network throughout 2020 and to pledge more active engagement in the future.

At the event, local residents, activists, and public officials gathered in one place to share various projects that the Mapo Women’s Network and external networks have promoted through safe activities despite the difficulties caused by the COVID-19 pandemic.

Under the facilitation of Park Sin-yeon-sook, the representative of Mapo Women’s Network, four activists each gave about 20-minute presentations on ▲ ‘Space and Gender’ Creating Mapo Women’s Center Together (Gu Eun-kyung) ▲ Gender Governance Activities ‘Alleyway Regeneration Project’ (Kim Kyung-hwa) ▲ Sustainable Feminism Village Life (Hong Soon-sung) ▲ Everyday Feminism (Cha Hae-young).

After the presentations, participants freely discussed related topics and shared broad empathy regarding women’s policies in Mapo-gu.

The sharing meeting was conducted in compliance with quarantine guidelines for social distancing to ensure the safety of attendees, including installing transparent partitions for each individual.

Meanwhile, Mapo-gu has been promoting various projects to spread a culture of gender equality under the vision of ‘A Happy Mapo for Everyone.’

Recently, ‘Safe Screens’ have been installed in the public restrooms of seven community service centers in the area. The ‘Safe Screen,’ which blocks the lower space of the restroom stall partitions to prevent illegal filming crimes, is part of the women’s safety project to create a safe urban environment and helps alleviate users’ anxiety.

Additionally, the ‘BPA (Broad Parking Area) Considerate Parking Spaces’ have been newly introduced to provide wider parking spaces for residents with infants, pregnant women, and transportation-vulnerable people carrying walking aids.

This expands the width by 30 to 50 cm compared to regular parking spaces. Since last October, 10 spaces have been pilot-installed and operated at Mangwon Interchange Public Parking Lot and the underground parking lot of Mapo Central Library, and recently also installed in the underground parking lot of Mapo-gu Office.

Yudonggyun, Mayor of Mapo-gu, said, “I hope that women’s activities in the local community will be enhanced through the activities of the Mapo Women’s Network,” and added, “Mapo-gu will continue efforts to promote various policies for spreading a culture of gender equality and continuously monitor them.”

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