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The exclusion of women from Seoul Transportation Corporation’s viewing positions instead reverses gender equality

After the murder of a station worker at Sindang Station in Seoul, a women’s group called for the removal of the Seoul Transport Corporation’s measures to reduce women’s viewing positions, saying, “It is somewhat moving away from gender equality.”

Fireworks Femi Action held a press conference in front of the Seoul Transportation Corporation in Seongdong-gu, Seoul on the morning of the 22nd and criticized, “It’s an inappropriate way to shift responsibility to gender by instead excluding ‘women’ from work than protect. workers who work.”

Kim Sang-beom, president of Seoul Transportation Corporation, mentioned the murder of a station worker at Sindang Station at a plenary meeting of the National Assembly’s Gender Equality and Family Committee on the 20th and said, “We will reduce the number of female workers on call. work and introducing the concept of virtual patrolling using CCTV rather than field patrolling.” he said.

Regarding this, the group said, “Even if it is a CCTV virtual patrol, toilets cannot be patrolled, and the crime and abuse is the Sindang Station incident.”

The group also demanded ▲ employ more than 30% female workers ▲ measures to prevent sexual harassment in the workplace ▲ introduce a two-person, one-team working rule.

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