[vol.15] [NEWS] Korean Women Workers Associations United, Headquarters of "Action Center for Women's Unemployment "is Established

Korean Women Workers Associations United, Headquarters of "Action Center for Women's Unemployment "is Established

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On June 9th, KWWAU held the opening of the headquarters Action Center for women's unemployment. Currently, the women's unemployment problem has been hidden behind the overall unemployment problem and has not received its due notice as a social problem.

The government also has no policy for this problem. Women workers have been shut out of the government's unemployment policy because the majority of women workers work in places where there is no employment insurance and are classified as potential jobless.

Therefore our associations headquarters of action counter for women's unemployment has been formed to actively confront the women's unemployment problem and to demand for a government policy on women's unemployment. The headquarters of the Action Center for Women's Unemployment has a central office and 5 regional brenches which will operate simultaneously.

The Action center's first project is the movement for 'employment registration for the female unemployed.' It was selected to reveal the severity of the women's unemployment problem and to urge a government policy regarding it.

Until now, jobless women have not registered or have not sought a job actively even though they are willing to work. But now the female unemployed intend to clarify that we too are unemployed, to reject the 'women to the homes' ideology in times of danger, and to relentlessly pursue the social value of equality that has been the product of our efforts so far.

In addition to the movement for employment registration for the female unemployed, the headquarter of Action Center for Women's Unemployment is currently offering information on jobs and employment, counselling on women's interests such as unjust layoffs and delayed pay, monitoring the local autonomy's employment policy with the government, and preparing research on the actual conditions of families with a female head of family.