Kim Eun-mee, president of Ewha Womans University, has been appointed as a goodwill ambassador of United Nations Women in recognition of her decades-long efforts to advance gender equality and women s empowerment.
In 2022, Korea mandated that listed companies with assets exceeding 2 trillion won must appoint at least one female member to their management teams. As a result, the percentage of female directors in Korea increased from 10.5 percent in 2016 to 14.6 percent in 2022, according to The Economist s data.
Women s economic participation has increased, but remains notably limited in pivotal industries that drive the global economy, such as infrastructure, technology and finance.
Statistics Korea, jointly with a U.N. body tasked with women’s empowerment, is hosting a workshop for female bureaucrats from 10 ASEAN countries, it said Monday.
United Nations Assistant Secretary-General and UN Women Deputy Executive Director, Anita Bhatia, visited the Republic of Korea on a three-day mission from 10 October 2022 to 12 October to meet with Korean Government agencies and participate in the 2022 Daejeon United Cities and Local Governments World Congress. The mission was accompanied by Sarah Knibbs, UN Women Regional Director a.i. for Asia and the Pacific, and Jeongshim Lee, Director of the UN Women Centre of Excellence for Gender Equality.