{"id":49146,"date":"2022-10-07T13:36:42","date_gmt":"2022-10-07T04:36:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/oct\/07\/outcry-as-south-korean-president-tries-to-scrap-gender-equality-ministry-to-protect-women"},"modified":"2022-10-07T13:36:42","modified_gmt":"2022-10-07T04:36:42","slug":"outcry-as-south-korean-president-tries-to-scrap-gender-equality-ministry-to-protect-women","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=49146","title":{"rendered":"Outcry as South Korean president tries to scrap gender equality ministry to \u2018protect\u2019 women"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Yoon Suk-yeol courted \u2018anti-feminist\u2019 male voters during election, and opponents say latest move threatens to be a major setback for women\u2019s rights<\/p>\n<p>South Korea\u2019s president, Yoon Suk-yeol, has defended his plan to abolish the country\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/global-development\/womens-rights-and-gender-equality\">gender equality<\/a> ministry, insisting it will lead to an improvement in women\u2019s rights.<\/p>\n<p>Yoon, a conservative who took office in May, is expected to encounter fierce opposition to the move, which will have to be approved by the national assembly, where the liberal opposition Democratic party has a majority.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/oct\/07\/outcry-as-south-korean-president-tries-to-scrap-gender-equality-ministry-to-protect-women\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yoon Suk-yeol courted \u2018anti-feminist\u2019 male voters during election, and opponents say latest move threatens to be a major setback for women\u2019s rightsSouth Korea\u2019s president, Yoon Suk-yeol, has defended his plan to abolish the country\u2019s gender equality mi&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":151,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[41,1201,336,222,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-49146","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-gender-pay-gap","category-sexual-harassment","category-south-korea","category-world-news"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49146","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/151"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=49146"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49146\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":49147,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49146\/revisions\/49147"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=49146"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=49146"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=49146"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}