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Law on Sex Equality

Date: 30/07/2025 | Source: KCNA.kp (En) | Read original version at source

Pyongyang, July 30 (KCNA) -- July 30 is the 79th anniversary of the promulgation of the Law on Sex Equality in Korea.

The Law on Sex Equality promulgated by President Kim Il Sung for the first time in history is a genuine democratic law which legally stipulates that women have the same right with men and a code of love that ushered in a new era of the women's emancipation.

In the first period of pioneering the Korean revolution, the President saw to it that the anti-Japanese women's association, a revolutionary women's mass organization, was organized and set a true example of sex equality and women's emancipation in the days of the anti-Japanese war and clarified the issue of realizing the sex equality in the "Ten-Point Programme of the Association for the Restoration of the Fatherland".

After the liberation of Korea, he set it as one of the important tasks for the building of a new country and the democratic development of society to emancipate women socially and eliminate the outdated relations of sex inequality and led the struggle to realize them.

He led the work to found the women's mass political organization involving broad sections of women, met with women officials even though he was busy building a new country and stressed that the right to sex equality should be achieved through their own efforts and struggle.

When the agrarian reform was enforced, he saw to it that the women received the land with the same right with men. When the Labour Law was enforced, he made sure that women had the equal right with men in labor life.

On the basis of laying a foundation for solving the issue of women, the President promulgated the Law on Sex Equality on July 30, 1946.

The promulgation of the Law on Sex Equality ushered in a new era of women's emancipation and respect for women and enabled the Korean women to grow into full-fledged masters of society and a powerful force pushing one of the two wheels of the revolution. -0-

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