Lee Jae-myung, the presidential candidate of the Democratic Party of Korea, presented a women's pledge centered around 'introducing a wage disclosure system for employment equality' amid controversy over a retreat of women's pledges.
On the 16th, the candidate announced the women's pledge on Facebook, saying, 'We will reduce discrimination and rectify unfairness to enhance everyone's rights.'
Specifically, the candidate proposed measures such as ▲strengthening penalties for dating violence crimes ▲responding vigorously to digital sexual crimes and enhancing victim protection ▲introducing a wage disclosure system for employment equality ▲expanding investment funds for women-led ventures ▲strengthening the status of women in agriculture.
The candidate stated, 'I will create a society where it is easy for women to work,' and 'I will improve the gender wage gap through the introduction of a wage disclosure system for employment equality.'
Furthermore, he mentioned, 'We will actively reflect gender equality indicators in public institutions and strengthen tax support for corporations that hire women with career gaps,' and 'We will expand the special health examination project for female farmers to enhance disease prevention and health welfare related to agricultural activities.'
Regarding women's safety related to digital crimes, he noted, 'We will establish a national official statistics system on dating violence and dating murders to systematize the analysis of preceding crimes and the establishment of follow-up crime prevention measures,' and 'We will gradually supply a safety bell connected directly to the police at business sites where women work alone.'
He added, 'We will enhance the cooperation system of the "Digital Sexual Crime Victim Support Center" to enable one-stop solutions for the deletion of illegal materials, investigation, legal, and medical support, and we will also expand support for the development of detection technologies for false and manipulated content such as deepfake videos.'
Previously, on the first day of the official election campaign, which was the 12th, the Democratic Party announced Lee's 10 major campaign pledges. However, unlike the previous election, it did not include pledges related to women, leading to evaluations that 'the women's pledges have retreated.'
In response, Jin Seong-jun, head of the Democratic Party's Central Election Committee, said, 'There is no basis for the evaluation that the women's pledges have been reduced or retreated,' and 'The women's pledge section will be included separately in the overall pledge book.'