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The head of the ministry is the Minister of Women and Children's Affairs and Minister for Gender, Children and Social Protection. The first head of the ministry when it was created in 2001 was Gladys Asmah and first head of the ministry when it was renamed MGCSP in February 2013 is Nana Oye Lithur. [2]
It became the Department of Women's Affairs in 1983, and was kept as the Department of Women's Affairs in the February 1985 Executive Council. In 1987 it was detached from the government, as the MPR Executive Secretariat with responsibility for gender. [1] In 1990 a Ministry for Gender was established. In 1992, it became the General Secretariat ...
A ministry of women or women's affairs exists in several countries under various names, often headed by a minister for women (or equivalent): Ministry of Women's Affairs (Afghanistan) Ministry of Women, Genders and Diversity (Argentina)
A Secretariat of State for the Advancement of Women was created in 1980 as a ministerial office attached to the Ministry of Labor. In 1992 this became a fully-fledged ministry, the Ministry for the Advancement of Women and Social Affairs, later called the Ministry of Social Affairs and the Status of Women (MINASCOM). [1]
Ministry of Women and Family), formerly the Ministry of Gender Equality (여성부, 女性部, lit. ' Ministry of Women '), is a cabinet-level division of the government of South Korea. It was created on February 28, 1998, as the Presidential Commission on Women's Affairs. The current ministry was formed on March 19, 2010.
Under this ministry, the Directorate of Women Affairs, National Women's Organization, Joyeeta Foundation, Bangladesh Shishu Academy and the DNA Laboratory Management Directorate, which are responsible forr development of women and children as well as overseeing women's empowerment, equality, protection and protection of rights.
The Ministry of Women Affairs is required to review substantive and procedural laws that affect women. [1] Some activities undertaken by the Ministry include cottage industry projects such as bee-keeping, pottery and vegetable oil production to boost the economic empowerment of women, where the Ministry provides equipment and training to women's cooperatives.
The position was held by Bappoo as the Minister of Gender Equality, Child Development and Family Welfare from May 2010 until August 2011, [2] when she was succeeded by Maria Francesca Mireille Martin until December 2014. [4]