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WPB Leadership Accused of Lack of Gender Diversity Following Party Congress
The WPB's 20-member Politburo will have an all-female membership for first time in 8 years
Author: Mike Rautch
December 15, 5721

The Worker's Party of Baeguk has elected its 10th Politburo and Presidium following the conclusion of the Party 10th Congress with a spectacular military parade this Monday. Of particular notice to international observers was the regression of gender equality and the lack of gender diversity in the upper echelons of North Baegukese Leadership. Of the 20 members of the Politburo, all are women, as are the 5 members of the Party Presidium, the supreme executive organ of the North Baegukese government. This is a regression in gender equality since the party congress of 5716, in which 3 Politburo members were male including former Agitprop Department director Yoon-Han Joeunil (일은좋 韓尹), who served as the sole male on the last Presidium.

The Party Congress met over the course of the week and continually asserted their unquestioning loyalty to Buyeo Bitnaeri's program of "New Socialism", which aims to move away from traditional fixtures of North Baegukese politics and modernize the nation. The embittered communist dictatorship's centrally planned economy has remained in a state of stagnation and reflux for years, prompting the new leader to increasingly liberalize markets and raise up a new class of "Money Masters" (Kyo: Donju, 主돈). It marks the first formal congress of the Buyeo Bitnaeri era and the fourth generation of North Baegukese leadership. The Congressional Resolution declared that:

We reassert the steel-like resilience of the Party in its commitment to the full realization and implementation of the brilliant Jarip Idea and the continuation of the glorious socialist worker's revolution that brought victory to the revolutionary masses under the tutelage and leadership of the Immortal President the Great Leader Buyeo Bitgaram. Cultivating the spirit of Socialism in the New Era of the fourth successor, Great Comrade Buyeo Bitnaeri, embracing the spirit of Mt. Sayeol, the whole Party and entire Nation resolutely defend to the death the new ideals and revelations of the New Socialism in destroying reactionism, promoting progressive policies forward, and defeating the enemies of the Minjung's progress and happiness. The Workers Party of Baeguk will work at Mallima-pace to bring to full fruition the new adapted program of Socialism in the New Era and to devote the nation's single-hearted unity to the hastening of the victory of the immortal science of Buyeo Bitgaramism-Buyeo Keunnaraism-Buyeo Byeolbadaism.

The Democratic People's Republic has only been ruled by the direct descendants of Buyeo Bitgaram, the founder of both the WPB and DPRB, since its' inception. Mrs. Buyeo, the fourth supreme ruler of the 73-year old hereditary dictatorship, succeeded her own mother 4 years ago but has already accrued political power and a significant cult of personality. The Supreme Leaders of North Baeguk, collectively referred to as the "Bloodline of Sayeol" (Mt. Sayeol being a holy mountain to the indigenous Kyo people), rule for life and possess great control over national politics.

North Baeguk is now the only sovereign Communist State in Terra to be ruled by an all-female Politburo, standing in stark contrast to the South. The National People's Congress, the DPRB's rubber stamp parliament, has a more favorable gender ratio of 76:24 of females:males, but this is still a supermajority of women.

International observers have noted a perceived decline in gender equality in the nation over the past decades, with the party congress seeming to confirm this trend. Generally, in North Baegukese society women are seen as the head of the household, on average earning more than their male counterparts and being significantly overrepresented in higher positions. Although the government officially promotes an ideological position of "post-Feminism" and "Feminism-Maleism", claiming that the socialist revolution in the country has achieved true equality and made gender politics irrelevant, de facto men are seen as incompetent, unrefined, and unable to handle greater tasks in the nation.