and raising awareness as major tasks and established a plan to rearrange a system for expansion of education on human rights in sex and gender equality 39. However, for an organized, effective and comprehensive sex education in public education, a division exclusively in charge of education on gender equality needs to be set up within the Ministry of Education, enabling education based on gender equality and human rights and monitoring of gender equality policies in the educational environment. [22] Improvement in Human Rights Situation of Women Farmers (List of Issues 20) 90. Although the Government came up with the Fourth (2016~2020) Basic Plan for Support of Female Farmers, the establishment of an exclusive division for women farmers, their long-cherished wish, has not taken place. The revision to the Support of Female Farmers and Fishermen Act related to the establishment of an exclusive division was reviewed at the National Assembly but not passed in 2017. Although there are currently some staff in charge of the Rural Welfare & Women Division of the Ministry of Agriculture, Food and Rural Affairs, budgets and projects of the division are concentrated in welfare matters, leaving difficulties to focus on policies for women farmers. Women account for 50% of the total agricultural workforce and play an increasingly important role in production, processing and distribution through agricultural labor. Thus, an exclusive division for them is needed to carry out a specialized and systemic support policy and improve the gender-discriminatory structure against them. Women’s Policy Office was in place in the Ministry of Agriculture in 1998 which was reorganized into Women’s Policy Division in 2004 and abolished in 2009. It is required to come up with a proper system to push for policies for women farmers. 91. As for participation as a member of the National Agricultural Cooperative Federation(Nonghyup), the multiple member system (more than one member allowed in one household) has been carried out since 1995 at the request of female farmers. Although it is allowed by law for them to become a director of Nonghyup, in reality, even participation as a Nonghyup member which is a 39 Ministry of Gender Equality and Family (October, 2017) Second Basic Plan for Gender Equality (Draft)