A Gender City Changwon Where Everyone Is Happy

Changwon Special City Selected as an Excellent Department for Promoting Women-Friendly City

Six Departments Including the Green City Project Office Park and Greenery Division Awarded

Changwon Special City selected the outstanding department for promoting a women-friendly city in 2022.

[Asia Economy Yeongnam Reporting Headquarters Reporter Song Jong-gu] Changwon Special City in Gyeongnam announced on the 29th that it selected six outstanding departments for the promotion of women-friendly cities this year and held an awards ceremony.

The outstanding departments for the promotion of women-friendly cities in 2022 received applications for women-friendly city projects being promoted by each department by the 8th of this month. After evaluations based on a gender-sensitive perspective, inter-departmental collaboration, and post-monitoring, six projects were finally selected and awarded.

▲Grand Prize: Green City Project Office, Parks and Greenery Division (Installation of women-friendly space "Moms Free Zone" in the park) ▲Excellence Award: Changwon Health Center, Health Management Division (Maternal health promotion project before and after childbirth), Masan Hoewon-gu Environmental Sanitation Division (Installation of safety screens in public restrooms) ▲Encouragement Award: Youth Policy Officer (Customized women workforce development project), Seongsan-gu Family Welfare Division (Operation of visiting gender-sensitivity level-up classes), Masan Hoewon-gu Family Welfare Division (Youth wedding project in collaboration with Changwon Special City and Hill Sky Wedding).

The Parks and Greenery Division’s "Moms Free Zone" is an eco-friendly complex cultural space where children can play freely, equipped with a fine dust safe area. Additionally, to create a citizen rest and healing space, the space composition applied women-friendly public facility guidelines through meetings with the women-friendly city citizen participation group and received consulting from a gender-sensitive perspective, demonstrating active collaboration with the Women and Family Division, which was highly evaluated.

First Deputy Mayor Ahn Kyung-won stated, “We thank all departments that actively promoted women-friendly policies for the safety and happiness of citizens. Going forward, the city will continue to strive to create a women-friendly city where women and men participate equally in local policies and gender-equal policies rooted in daily life spread throughout the community.”

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