Company Culture Campaign for Work-Life Balance

Congratulations! We Support 90 Days of Maternity Leave!

Around Yeo-ui-do station at May 4 Tuesday morning. It was crowded with people since there were about 11 organizations including Seoul YWCA for a start of the Company Culture Campaign for Work-Life Balance.

Here is the simple reason why these 11 organizations were gathered. Working women get stressed by discriminations in their company due to pregnancy and childbirth. Now is the time to think about these problems together and guarantee their confident social participation through improving public awareness on Work-Life Balance. Furthermore, they are going to spread social attitude that society have to share their responsible to child-care.

After the ceremony they marched to the Yeo-ui-do station and park with signs. They distributed leaflets to office workers and did a survey weather they know about the maternity leave before and after child birth. Many people participate to the survey and most of them know what the maternity leave is, but they seemed to have little understanding about it. In the question “Can you use your maternity leave without any worries?”, most of them answered ‘No.’ One of the office worker who participated to the survey cheered them up, saying "I can fully understand the meaning of this campaign because it is linked directly to my and my wife's lives."

If you have a co-worker, a junior or a boss who is pregnant, celebrate them with your heart. How they are treated can be your future or your child’s future. A small change in the company’s culture and hearty celebration can change our future.

First, let’s start with the maternity leave. Using 90 days of vacation without minding others, I hope we can go to the society that respects both women’s right of work and men’s child care.


 

 

 

 

*The Campaign band consisted of 11 groups; Seoul YWCA, Young Women's Christian Association of Korea, Korea Women Workers Association, Korean Women’s Trade Union, Korean Women’s Association United, National Members of Women, Woman Labor Law Support Center, Korea YMCA, Woman Resources Development Center, Seoul Women Workers Association.