"Yoon Transition Team Should Propose Future-Oriented Alternative Organization by Dissolving Ministry of Gender Equality and Family"

"Concerns Over Abolishing the Ministry of Gender Equality Without Gender Equality Measures"
The Narrative 'There Are Mothers but No Women' Should Not Be Overlooked

President-elect Yoon Suk-yeol is responding to reporters' questions while touring the briefing room of the 20th Presidential Transition Committee set up at the Financial Supervisory Service Training Institute in Tongui-dong, Jongno-gu, Seoul, on the morning of the 28th. Photo by Transition Committee Press Corps

[Asia Economy Reporter Lee Hyun-joo] The People Power Party's National Association of Women Local Councilors and the National Women's Parliamentary Association held a press conference at the National Assembly on the 29th, stating that the Presidential Transition Committee should propose a more future-oriented institutional alternative body through the progressive dissolution of the Ministry of Gender Equality and Family.

In a statement released that day, the association said, "The current Ministry of Gender Equality and Family, which has consistently sided with the ruling party and fallen into the 'ruling party's Ministry of Gender Equality and Family' amid a series of power-related sexual crime incidents involving Democratic Party-affiliated metropolitan governors, deserves criticism," but also emphasized, "Civil society organizations are opposing the abolition of the Ministry of Gender Equality and Family without gender equality measures. The narrative that 'there are mothers but no women' should not be overlooked."

The association continued, "The Democratic Party, defeated in the presidential election, is employing a divide-and-conquer strategy to use the gender debate triggered by the abolition of the Ministry of Gender Equality and Family as a way to gain momentum in the local elections," adding, "If the Democratic Party's impure strategy to distort the original intent of its pledges becomes full-fledged, there are concerns it may negatively affect the direction of women's votes in the local elections."

They urged, "The Transition Committee should establish a future-oriented alternative ministry that can encompass agendas such as resolving gender conflicts, strengthening women's rights, closing the gender wage gap, addressing the low birthrate issue amid the population cliff, enhancing gender-sensitive education, preparing measures for a super-aged society, and creating institutional responses to climate change."

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