"Yoon’s government is removing the term 'gender equality' from school textbooks and has canceled funding for programs to fight everyday sexism. 'If you find gender equality and feminism so important, you can do it with your own money and time,' said one lawmaker in his party.
The government is also working to dismantle its own headquarters for women’s empowerment — the gender equality ministry. Established in 2001, it’s been transformative in normalizing parental leave for fathers and helping more women achieve workplace seniority.
Comments by the gender equality minister under the Yoon administration illustrate its abandonment of women. In September, Kim Hyun-sook rejected that misogyny was at play when a Seoul Metro worker stabbed a female colleague to death in a subway bathroom after stalking her for years. Kim also initially declared that the rape and killing of a college student on campus last June was not violence against women and shouldn’t be used to fan 'gender conflict.'”
~ H. Jung
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