2. Twenty Years for Women Workers(to realize the task of women workers) 1) Employment Security and Rights for Non-standard Workers Struggles to Counter Persistent Employment Insecurity of Women Workers From the late 1980s and on, the Korean economy was undergoing large-scale structural adjustment. Textile, wig, garment, basic assembly, and light industry were moving to Southeast Asia seeking cheaper labor. Widespread factory relocation, shutdown and closings in garment and electronic industries threatened the livelihood of women workers, and heated fights arose to stop factory closings and to demand unpaid retirement pay. KWWA actively supported these struggles of women workers. 1 In addition, KWWA anticipated even more long-term employment insecurity due to industrial structural adjustment, and focused on raising this as an issue and proposing alternatives. From 1990 to present, KWWA has continued to undertake research studies to stop employment insecurity of women workers and to propose related policy alternatives. In 1991, a discussion forum was convened to urge more public attention on the issue of employment insecurity, and proposed an employment insurance system to 1 From the beginning, KWWA has supported a variety of struggles of women workers which are not discussed in detail here due to space considerations. These include solidarity campaigns, protests against mass layoff due to factory closings, efforts to reinstate fired workers, efforts to increase wages, struggles at specific worksite, foreign-owned corporations, etc. A Campaign for improving the Act on Dispatched Workers Protection(2004) guarantee a certain degree of basic livelihood even in spite of unemployment. As a result, the Employment Insurance Act was passed in the National Assembly in 1993 and became effective in July 1995. In October 1995, KWWA sought to raise public awareness of the newly implemented Employment Insurance Act, and organized a symposium on“Employment Insurance Act and Women’s Employment Security” which urged social responsibility for childcare leave. Together with further consultation with women’s labor groups, KWWA submitted a proposal concerning childcare leave to the government. In 1993, KWWA determined that the proposed Act on Dispatched Workers Protection would in