Druckschrift 
20 years of Korean women workers movement : evaluation and future tasks ; 20th anniversary of Korean Women Workers Association
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Activists take on an alternative lifestyle like sharing resources among other NGOs and public foundation such as medical support and scholarship. Nevertheless, activists still think they need a pay increase of 100%. Work/family conflicts Married activists suffer from work-family conflicts just as other married women workers do. Most of the interviewees spouses are also activists, working for trade unions, NGOs, or the like and together they both dont have enough money or time. While they are suffering from a lack of time, where are their husbands? The husbands often also have a busy life as an activist. Female activists work as hard as their spouses and they take on more responsibilities for child care than do their husbands. One of the reasons for this is financial. Female activists do more housework to be fair because they make less money. Activists dont think it is a solution that their husbands do more housework than they do now, because their husbands already spend long hours at work. They think that the answer should be shortening working hours. Gender-based division of labor at home, such as child card and housework, hasnt yet been raised as a question by activists. The matter of child care has not been discussed officially within the organization. Single activists understand the difficulties of activists with children and, individually, show consideration for them. Issues such as why consideration for parents is necessary, whether individual consideration is good enough, what a gender-based division of labor at home should look like, and what individual activists and the organization should do when work-family conflicts appear have not yet been raised in general meetings. 3) Results of KWWA Activities The biggest outcome of KWWA initiatives activists point out is improvement to laws and the system. KWWA has made efforts to have laws/systems such as the following improved: Child Care law, Sexual Equality Employment Act, Employment Insurance Act, Gender Employment Equality Act, child care leave, Supporting Law for Unemployed Female Households, laws for protection of irregular workers, minimum wage laws, etc. They feel that KWWA has had a big influence on government policy. KWWA find out what women workers need and tries to get them that. KWWA believes that women workers are the major power to get revisions to laws and social systems. While doing this, activists at KWWA show a keen sensibility to peoples needs and sincerity in their work. Activists at KWWA realize the seriousness of the issues for women-headed households and have pushed for improvements to the social systems