Jeonnam Province Puts Full Effort into Spreading Healthy Organizational Culture of Gender Equality

Jeonnam Province is putting all its efforts into spreading a healthy organizational culture with gender equality.

On the 11th, the province announced that it will promote organizational culture diagnosis to prevent sexual harassment and customized violence prevention education for employees.

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To this end, as part of measures to eradicate sexual harassment and sexual violence, a business agreement was signed on the 5th with the Korea Women's Human Rights Institute, an organization that operates sexual harassment prevention organizational culture diagnosis.

From now until the 14th, a preliminary survey for organizational culture diagnosis will be conducted for employees at the provincial government headquarters for four days, and on the 19th of next month, two external advisory members and one officer from the Korea Women's Human Rights Institute will diagnose the organizational culture.

The sexual harassment prevention organizational culture diagnosis aims to identify areas for improvement through diagnosis of sexual harassment prevention regulations and incident response systems, as well as members' awareness, experience, and coping abilities related to sexual harassment, and to strengthen gender-sensitive sexual harassment and sexual violence incident handling capabilities.

On the day, violence prevention education was conducted for about 600 employees at the Kim Dae-jung Auditorium in the provincial government office to enhance gender sensitivity.

Kim Yoon-i, a professional instructor of integrated violence prevention education at the Korea Institute for Gender Equality Promotion and Education and CEO of EXIT Psychological Counseling Education Research Institute, conducted education under the themes of ‘Preventing Secondary Damage from Sexual Harassment and Sexual Violence through Enhancing Gender Sensitivity’ and ‘Understanding Gender Violence.’ The education covered the meaning of gender sensitivity, checking mistaken beliefs that justify violence and preventing secondary damage, the importance of awareness and roles in gender equality, and exploring practical measures.

Yu Mi-ja, Director of Women and Family Policy at Jeonnam Province, said, “We will create a healthy workplace culture with gender equality free from gender stereotypes or prejudices through accurate organizational diagnosis of workplace harassment and improvement of employee awareness,” adding, “We will continuously expand effective measures to eradicate sexual harassment and sexual violence in the workplace.”

Jeonnam Province operates counseling channels by designating one male and one female counselor each at the administrative portal’s cyber grievance counseling room, the provincial headquarters, affiliated agencies, and business headquarters to prevent sexual harassment in the workplace.

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