Gyeonggi Province to Create 90,000 Women's Jobs This Year

Gyeonggi Province will implement various job training and startup support measures with the goal of creating 90,000 women's jobs this year. After-school childcare services, which have been operated separately by different government ministries, are expected to be integrated into a single business system from the first half of this year, making access more convenient.

The Gyeonggi Province Women and Family Division held a business report on the 14th, presided over by Park Su-young, Senior Vice Governor of Administration, and announced 12 business plans in the women and family affairs sector for this year.

Lee Eul-jook, director of the Gyeonggi Province Women and Family Division, said in the business report, "The government's 70% employment rate target is impossible without creating women's jobs," and added, "We will work to create a Gyeonggi Province where women and families are happy through creating 30,000 women's jobs, establishing a connected after-school childcare system, overcoming low birth rates, and family support projects."

According to the business report, the Women and Family Division plans to create 30,000 women's jobs this year with a budget of 13.444 billion won, including 24,400 jobs supporting employment of career-interrupted women, 3,000 part-time jobs, and 2,500 jobs supporting employment of middle-aged and older women.

Therefore, the province explained that it will create a total of 90,000 jobs by combining the 30,000 jobs targeted by the Women and Family Division and 60,000 women's jobs created through the Gyeonggi Job Center.

New women's job policies introduced this year include part-time jobs and employment support for middle-aged and older women. Part-time jobs are regular positions where workers work during hours desired by both the company and the employee, with no discrimination in working conditions such as wages and benefits.

The province plans to conduct nine rounds of recruitment for part-time jobs from companies this year and will supply part-time workers through 19 New Work Centers throughout the province based on applications received from each company.

Employment support for middle-aged and older women will target vulnerable middle-aged and older groups who cannot use employment agencies due to the lack of even referral fees. The province plans to arrange simple jobs such as housekeeping assistance and laundry assistance for these groups through seven Women's Human Resources Development Centers and three New Work Centers throughout the province.

A system will also be established to link after-school childcare projects promoted by different ministries—the Ministry of Education's Elementary After-School Care Classroom, the Ministry of Gender Equality and Family's After-School Academy, and the Ministry of Health and Welfare's Community Children's Centers—into one.