While many local governments have only male civil servants to work full-time at night, Gyeonggi Ansan City announced on the 2nd that it has also decided to put female civil servants in full-time from this month.
The city explained, "There have been a lot of complaints about only male civil servants working full-time," and said, "In terms of gender equality duty, women civil servants were also forced to work full-time."
The city of Ansan has been dividing the on-call job into'work', which is working from 9 am to 6 pm on weekends and holidays, and'full-time', which works from 6 pm to 9 am the next day on weekdays.
Only female civil servants participated in the daytime job, and male public servants in the nighttime job.
With 50.6% of city officials being female public servants, there were many complaints about why only male public servants had to do this night shift.
At the end of last year, in an employee survey to improve the watch-to-hold system, 450 out of 627 respondents, or 72%, said that they should participate in watch-to-watch workers equally.
This time, as female public officials are put into full-time work, male public officials also have full-time jobs.
The city believes that the employment of female public officials at night will help reduce the full-time burden of male public officials and reduce work gaps.
The city, however, has decided to exclude women officials who are pregnant or who need to take care of small children from full-time work.
In addition, considering safety issues such as night patrol and government building protection, there is no plan to organize watchdogs with only women.
A city official said, "If female public officials participate in full-time work, the full-time period of male public officials is expected to increase from 45 days to 60 days. .
(Photo = Courtesy of Ansan City, Yonhap News)