<Anchor> It
has been confirmed that pregnancy has been classified as a disability on the website of a public institution that accepts the national qualification test. It was only corrected after being criticized that there was a problem, but the gender sensitivity of public institutions is becoming controversial one after another.
This is reporter Minjung Kim.
<Reporter> The
website of the Human Resources Development Service of Korea, which administers the national certification exam.
Applications are in full swing, but a strange item stands out.
Pregnant women are classified as disabled in the box asking if they have a disability.
The same applies to other fields such as hairdressers and Korean cooks.
The Corporation explained that "they have been classified as such since 2015 for the purpose of providing convenience to identify pregnant women."
[Jeong Mi-kyung/Yangcheon-gu, Seoul: As a mother who gave birth to two children, I was very upset and upset that the (recognition) part had not improved.] When the
Gender Equality Education Promotion Agency gave an opinion that there was a problem, the Corporation said, "It was inappropriate classification. "I belatedly modified the homepage.
A public health center in Yongin, Gyeonggi Province recently provided a pregnant woman with an envelope with the phrase "It is better to give birth to a father than to raise a mother for ten months."
It is pointed out that with public institutions' gender sensitivity rising on the cutting board day after day, social awareness of the whole process of pregnancy and childbirth should be improved before discussing the problem of low birthrate.