<What are women’s labor models: hosting 2nd policy workshop on searching for women’s employment welfare strategies>

<What are women’s labor models: hosting 2^nd policy workshop on searching for women’s employment welfare strategies>

 

The 2^nd policy workshop on searching for women’s employment welfare strategies was held to overcome the current economic crisis. On the theme “What are women’s labor models” the first presentation was made by Dr. Eun Soo-mi, and in the second presentation the necessity for job creation in the care service such as childcare, education and care assistance and nursing was addressed to seek for alternatives of women’s jobs.

 

Above all, Dr. Eun Soo-mi pointed out the repeated crisis of women’s labor whenever economic crisis occurs, and particularly, she stressed it would be a more serious problem that women’s labor is not seen, although it exists because the recent women workers seem to be unheard.  She made two suggestions to tackle the problem: firstly, women’s labor issues should be treated as social discourses but through ‘exposing women’s issues in the market’ not through any shock treatment such as accidents or incidents. For example, women’s social indexes should be published every year, and women’s employment related large-scale symposiums should be held; and secondly, the solidarity for organizing women should be considered.

 

To overcome the economic crisis women’s labor model should be dealt with in two perspectives: firstly, the quality of job should be improved; and secondly, she also emphasized that the scope of employment issues should be expanded from employees to workers, and workers should be protected at least in one of the following three labor structures: firstly, basic social protection for workers, secondly, protection through the management-and-labor relationship, and lastly, discrimination preventions at the national level to realize ‘no protections no jobs.’

 

In the second section, there were three presentations: the first presentation on the theme of the protection of poor children, and issues of education and jobs was made by Choi Sun-sook, another presentation on the title of the situation of care service, characteristics and job creation by Mo Se-jong, and the last on the theme of the protection and education of children and jobs by Lim Youn-ok, head of policy making bureau, KWWA. ‘Overwhelming short-term jobs’ was addressed a lot in the job creation issue. Although jobs in the care service sector should be continued and secure, the present government offers short-term jobs, which is not helpful to workers nor service receivers or organizations, because short-term jobs accumulate paper works.  Therefore, the presenters emphasized the short-term job creation policy should be changed to long-term sustainable jobs which satisfy service providers and receivers, both.