Yongin City Wins Provincial 'Gender Impact Assessment Excellence Award' for 5 Consecutive Years

Application of Olympic Gender Equality Standards to 'Gyeonggi-do Sports Festival'
Promotion Booths and Activities to Prevent Athlete Sexual Crimes Established

Yongin City in Gyeonggi Province was selected as an excellent case of gender equality in Gyeonggi Province for its 'Gyeonggi Province Comprehensive Sports Competition case' hosted last year.

Yongin City announced on the 15th that it received the Excellence Award at the 'Gender Impact Assessment Best Practice Competition' hosted by Gyeonggi Province. The city explained that this award marked its fifth consecutive year of winning at the competition.

A Yongin City official is presenting a case at Gyeonggi Province's 'Gender Impact Assessment Best Practice Competition.'
[Photo by Yongin City]

The 'Gender Impact Assessment System' is a system that analyzes and evaluates about 1,200 projects conducted by Gyeonggi Province and basic local governments from a gender equality perspective. This year, 10 projects were selected as excellent cases at the competition.

In this evaluation, Yongin City’s 'Gyeonggi Province Comprehensive Sports Competition' project received the highest score in the first evaluation round and was awarded the Gyeonggi Province Governor’s Award.

The Gyeonggi Province Comprehensive Sports Competition is the province’s premier sports festival, encompassing four events: the Gyeonggi Province Sports Competition, Gyeonggi Province Disabled Sports Competition, Gyeonggi Province Disabled Life Sports Competition, and Gyeonggi Province Life Sports Festival. The city sequentially held these events at Yongin Mir Stadium from August to October last year.

In this project, Yongin City received high praise for applying the 'Olympic Gender Equality Standards' during the operation process and jointly hosting an exhibition on the 'History of Women in Sports' with the National Women’s History Museum.

Additionally, to prevent sexual crimes and provide counseling for participating athletes, a promotional and information booth was set up in collaboration with the 'Yongin Sexual Violence Counseling Center.' Citizen participants from Yongin City’s Women-Friendly City also conducted inspections for illegal filming devices and gender-sensitivity monitoring during the competition period.

Through gender-sensitivity monitoring, the city checked whether participants’ roles at the opening and awards ceremonies were divided by gender, the convenience of spaces, the status of women’s participation in competitions, and incorrect expressions about athletes and participants in media coverage. Based on the monitoring results, the city prepared improvement measures and delivered them to the local government sports councils hosting future competitions.

The city added that, especially last year, as part of improvements in the sports sector, it specified the activation of sports participation for female youth in ordinances, ensured fair recruitment of athletes in city-affiliated workplace sports teams, and made efforts to expand the protection and rights of maternity and paternity.

A city official said, "We always reflect the opinions of women and socially vulnerable groups in the policy-making process to actively promote gender equality and support for marginalized groups," adding, "We will raise the level of policies to create a society where all citizens are respected without discrimination."

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