10 Women's Policy in the Era of Local Autonomy
A women's department should be established in local adminstration.
- Childcare facilities should be expanded. Government's financial support should be allocated fairly to public and private childcare facilities. And a regulation on establishment and support of childcare facilities should be legislated.
- Local administration should financially support "school feeding system." In order to implement "school feeding system" actively, a regulation on support of "school feeding system" should be legislated.
- Childcare centers should be established to protect and educate children after school. First of all, elementary schools, social welfare facilities and rooms in local administration should be opened for after school program.
- In order to protect women victims from home violence, temporary women's shelters should be expended in local administration. And, counseling activities should be enhanced to help women victims.
- In order to expand job opportunity for women, women's vocational training centers should be increased. Women's share of low, middle, and high- level civil servants to certain percentage, that is quota system, should be implemented.
- Social education program for housewives, women farmers and women workers should be prepared.
- Social welfare budget for women farmers' maternity protection should be reserved.
- Social participation of senior citizens should be urged. Senior citizens' welfare centers -social education program, counseling, health care- should be established in local administration.
- Professionals should be dispatched in women's welfare services. Budget for women's welfare and women related fields should be expanded.
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