Minister Won Min-kyong of the Ministry of Gender Equality and Family said on the 4th that the ministry is pushing to introduce a "pay transparency for equal employment system" to raise the level of gender equality in the labor market. The pay transparency for equal employment system is a policy under which the government discloses, by job category, gender, and employment type, the male-female ratio and wage status to review gender equality at corporations.
The Minister said this at the National Assembly on the morning of the day during a parliamentary inspection of the Gender Equality and Family Committee. This is the first parliamentary audit of the Gender Equality Ministry since the Lee Jae-myung administration reorganized it from the Ministry of Gender Equality and Family.
The Minister said, "On the 1st of last month, the Ministry of Gender Equality and Family was newly launched to realize substantive gender equality," adding, "We established the Gender Equality Policy Office and the Director-General for Equal Employment Policy to strengthen the promotion framework for gender equality policies, while also creating a unit to ease the gender perception gap among the younger generation and to resolve gender imbalances."
He added, "We will make sure that the organizational restructuring does not stop at a simple name change, and will work so that gender equality values can be substantively realized."
The Minister also said, "We will ensure that gender equality values are substantively realized across society's policies and systems," adding, "We will strengthen the pan-ministerial response system to gender-based violence."
He went on to say, "We will expand economic support, such as self-reliance grants, so that victims of gender-based violence, including sexual violence and domestic violence, can become stably self-sufficient, and from next year, we plan to newly provide a self-reliance allowance to child and youth victims of sexual exploitation."