Gwangju City Holds Workshop to Foster Gender-Equal Organizational Culture

On the 8th, Gwangju City in Gyeonggi Province announced that it held a Gender Equality Organizational Culture Workshop on the 5th to promote and establish a culture of mutual respect and consideration for gender equality within the organization.

Gwangju City held a workshop on May 5 to promote and establish a gender-equal organizational culture based on mutual respect and consideration. Photo by Gyeonggi Gwangju City

The workshop was attended by childcare public officials raising preschool children and unmarried public officials, and was divided into a special lecture to strengthen gender sensitivity capabilities and group discussions.

The first part featured a special lecture on creating an organizational culture through gender sensitivity by Kang Si-hyun, a professional instructor from the Korea Institute for Gender Equality Promotion and Education. The second part consisted of subgroup discussions on the theme of practicing a gender-equal organizational culture for work-family balance, where participants shared difficulties experienced while balancing work and childcare and derived improvement tasks to harmonize work life and childcare time.

The derived tasks will be selected and utilized as practical tasks for all members to foster a gender-equal organizational culture through a survey of all employees.

Mayor Bang Se-hwan said, “I hope this workshop will serve as an opportunity to generate good proposals for establishing a gender-equal organizational culture and create a workplace environment where childcare public officials can balance work and family.”

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