A Society for Women
If I had a chance to be born again, I wish I would be a Korean woman. The DPRK is, indeed, a paradise for women and an ideal society for mothers which provides genuine rights to them and ensures their dignity on the highest level—this is what the chairwoman of the Ireland-DPRK Friendship Association said during her visit to the country a few years ago.
The DPRK fully provides women with political freedom and all kinds of rights as a social being, including the right to work and rest and the right to free education and free medical care.
The women take part in the State affairs and socio-political activities freely as the legitimate masters of the country and have the right to elect and to be elected in the elections of the organs of state power at all levels, including the election of deputies to the Supreme People’s Assembly, irrespective of their employment and education.
They have the same right to work as men and are fully provided with the right to development as a social being. Those at working age are provided with stable jobs according to their wishes. The State reduces working hours for women with several children and gives them due subsidies every month. The women take a paid maternity leave, in addition to a regular leave.
The DPRK has adopted such laws as the Family Law, Public Health Law, Socialist Labour Law and the Law on the Nursing and Upbringing of Children in order to enhance the position and role of women and guarantee their rights, and is promoting their implementation as the nationwide undertakings.
Nurseries and kindergartens can be found in different parts of urban and rural areas and fishing villages. Weekly nurseries and kindergartens and 10-day kindergartens run for women busy with social life. The expenses for the nursing and upbringing of children are borne by the State.
The women give birth to their children and receive treatment at medical service centres across the country, including the Pyongyang Maternity Hospital and its affiliated Breast Tumour Institute. The charges for assistance at childbirth and all medicines necessary for medical treatment and the costs for using medical appliances are paid free.
A social climate of attaching importance to women and respecting them prevails in the country.
Singing of such songs as Love Your Wife and Song of Wife resounds through the country. The women hold a considerable proportion in the number of senior officials of the State economic organs, heroes, labour innovators, renowned scientists, artistes and athletes.
Thanks to such policies of the State, all the Korean women, be they worker, farmer and intellectual, are creating and leading a happy life.
The DPRK fully provides women with political freedom and all kinds of rights as a social being, including the right to work and rest and the right to free education and free medical care.
The women take part in the State affairs and socio-political activities freely as the legitimate masters of the country and have the right to elect and to be elected in the elections of the organs of state power at all levels, including the election of deputies to the Supreme People’s Assembly, irrespective of their employment and education.
They have the same right to work as men and are fully provided with the right to development as a social being. Those at working age are provided with stable jobs according to their wishes. The State reduces working hours for women with several children and gives them due subsidies every month. The women take a paid maternity leave, in addition to a regular leave.
The DPRK has adopted such laws as the Family Law, Public Health Law, Socialist Labour Law and the Law on the Nursing and Upbringing of Children in order to enhance the position and role of women and guarantee their rights, and is promoting their implementation as the nationwide undertakings.
Nurseries and kindergartens can be found in different parts of urban and rural areas and fishing villages. Weekly nurseries and kindergartens and 10-day kindergartens run for women busy with social life. The expenses for the nursing and upbringing of children are borne by the State.
The women give birth to their children and receive treatment at medical service centres across the country, including the Pyongyang Maternity Hospital and its affiliated Breast Tumour Institute. The charges for assistance at childbirth and all medicines necessary for medical treatment and the costs for using medical appliances are paid free.
A social climate of attaching importance to women and respecting them prevails in the country.
Singing of such songs as Love Your Wife and Song of Wife resounds through the country. The women hold a considerable proportion in the number of senior officials of the State economic organs, heroes, labour innovators, renowned scientists, artistes and athletes.
Thanks to such policies of the State, all the Korean women, be they worker, farmer and intellectual, are creating and leading a happy life.
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