Gwangju Seo-gu Implements 'Integrated Male and Female Duty Shifts' Starting This Month

[Asia Economy Honam Reporting Headquarters Reporter Shin Dong-ho] Seo-gu, Gwangju Metropolitan City (Mayor Seo Dae-seok) announced on the 1st that it will implement a 'gender-integrated duty system' starting this month.

In February, Seo-gu conducted a survey among its employees regarding female public officials' overnight duty, and the results showed that 62% supported female public officials' overnight duty, indicating a consensus on the necessity of introducing overnight duty for female employees.

Accordingly, since March, a duty TF team was formed to prepare improvement measures for duty work, and based on three rounds of TF team discussions, it was decided that overnight duty for female public officials will be conducted by organizing one team of four members with mixed genders.

In addition, in line with the mixed-gender overnight duty, separate rest areas for men and women will be prepared, and the gender ratio will be set at 2:2 to implement the gender-integrated duty system.

Seo-gu plans to implement overnight duty for all female employees but will exclude employees with children under the age of five from overnight duty to accommodate public officials with childcare responsibilities.

A Seo-gu official stated, “As the gender-integrated duty system is implemented, we will strengthen building security, continuously collect employees' opinions, improve the duty environment to ensure the stable establishment of the gender-integrated duty system, and carry out duty tasks in accordance with changing times.”

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