Gender Impact Analysis Assessment in Korea

抄録

In 1995, ‘The Beijing Women's Conference’ agreed to assess the situation of women's policy in each country. And that agreement should be the promotion of the gender analysis of policies in terms of the emergence of the important issue. This approach to mainstreaming of women and women's issue was going to be important for Women's Policy in Korea. Indicators of women's policy development and evaluation, the quality of life for women and the ability of women to achieve equality have been developed.Gender Impact Analysis Assessment^１) (GIAA) is not only for a women's policy. GIAA is applicable to all government policies. All government policies considered as a neutral policy could be included in GIAA. A similar concept of GIAA is as follows: gender analysis, gender sensitive analysis, and gender-based analysis, etc.The purpose of this paper is to examine the status of GIAA system and present alternatives for the development of system.