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In 1973, the women's groups in South Korea united in the Pan-Women's Society for the Revision of the Family Law to revise the discriminating Family Law of 1957, a cause that remained a main focus for the rest of the 20th-century, and resulted in a major reform of the Family Law in 1991. [18]
In North Korea, all women's movements were channeled into the Korean Democratic Women's Union. In South Korea, the women's movement was united under the Korean National Council of Women in 1959, which in 1973 organized the women's group in the Pan-Women's Society for the Revision of the Family Law to revise the discriminatory Family Law of 1957 ...
Ministry of Women and Family), formerly the Ministry of Gender Equality (여성부, 女性部, lit. ' Ministry of Women '), is a cabinet-level division of the government of South Korea. It was created on February 28, 1998, as the Presidential Commission on Women's Affairs. The current ministry was formed on March 19, 2010.
The abortion law was not strongly enforced, especially during campaigns to lower South Korea's high fertility rate in the 1970s and 1980s. As the fertility rate dropped in the 2000s, the government and anti-abortion campaigners turned their attention to illegal abortions [ 8 ] [ 7 ] and the government stepped up enforcement of the abortion law ...
Amid an anti-feminist backlash, lawmakers in South Korea are debating President Yoon Suk Yeol’s proposal to abolish the Ministry of Gender Equality and Family.
The National Assembly of South Korea passed an amendment to the Article in March 2002, which came into force on 31 March 2005, and prohibited marriage only between men and women who are closely related (i.e. consanguine marriage, in South Korea, consanguine marriage is defined as marriage between two family members with degree of relationship 8 ...
Lee Tai-young (Korean: 이태영; 10 August 1914 – 16 December 1998), also spelled Yi T'ai Yǒng, was Korea's first female lawyer [other sources refer to her as the first female lawyer in South Korea]. [2] She was also the founder of the country's first legal aide centre. [3] She fought for women's rights all through her career. [4]
In North Korea all women's movement was channeled into the Korean Democratic Women's Union; in South Korea, the women's movement was united under the Korean National Council of Women in 1959, which in 1973, organized the women's group in the Pan-Women's Society for the Revision of the Family Law to revise the discriminating Family Law of 1957 ...