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The Korean Women Workers Association (KWWA or Han'guk yŏsŏng nodongjahoe 한국여성노동자회) is an organization in South Korea dedicated to advancing the human rights for working women and promoting gender equality.[1] KWWA offers leadership training and monitors the effects of government policies on women workers.[2]

It was the first national women workers association in Korea.[3] KWWA is also one of the founding members of the umbrella organization of the Korean Women's Associations United (KWAU).[4]

  1. ^ "Korean Women Workers Association (KWWA)". Women's International Network News. 18 (4). 1992. Retrieved 4 November 2015.
  2. ^ Chun, Jennifer Jihye (2009). Organizing at the margins: the symbolic politics of labor in South Korea and the United States. Ithaca: Cornell University Press. ISBN 9780801458453. OCLC 726824189.
  3. ^ Kim, Seung-Kyung; Kim, Kyounghee (2010). "Mapping a Hundred Years of Activism: Women's Movements in Korea". In Roces, Mina; Edwards, Louise (eds.). Women's Movements in Asia: Feminisms and Transnational Activism. New York: Routledge. pp. 199. ISBN 9780203851234.
  4. ^ Hur, Song-Woo (2011). "Mapping South Korean Women's Movements During and After Democratization". In Broadbent, Jeffrey; Brockman, Vicky (eds.). East Asian Social Movements: Power, Protest and Change in a Dynamic Region. New York: Springer. p. 187. ISBN 9780387096254.

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