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It's
time to obtain 'Women's Rights' -Women's rights
in Korea still remain on the level of developing countries
The participants, having various jobs from a child-care teacher
and a nurse through a house maid, asked to ▲remove discrimination
for part-time workers ▲apply the Labor Standard Act to workers
in special areas ▲cancel the plans to privatize state-run enterprises
▲abolish the National Security Act ▲observe maternity benefit
law ▲extend child-care facilities ▲guarantee 30% quota for women
in governmental posts. Hae-Lim Jung, a Kyungsung graduate, led the rally and said, "The most urgent problem for women workers is that they are not admitted as workers formally, thus labor rights are not warranted for them. We will keep campaigning until we obtain them." Another participant, Seung-Young Bae, Chairwoman of Women Consultation in Busan, commented that it was a very touching moment to see women getting together and asking for their rights. "Human rights are sacred and should be respected", she added.
Unlike systematic corporate labor unions, most of the women's organizations are on a small scale and have low participation rate. Thus, fighting for the amendment of women law and practices has not been an easy task. Despite these difficulties, Korea Women Association made it possible to pass the Women workers law warranting mothers' rights and child nursing leaves through active discussions and negotiations with the department in charge. They are further fighting for amendments of political law to trigger more involvement of women and for an affirmative act in employing women workers. International Women's Day has its beginning in 1908. In U.S. more than ten thousand women protested for ten working hours, suffrage and wage increase in New York on March 8.
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As March 8th of International
Women's Day was celebrated around the world, especially in U.S.,
India and Russia, a mass meeting was held under the slogan of 'Fighting
for human rights and for women's involvement in politics' at Minju(meaning
Democracy) Park in Busan.
