KWDI Korean Women’s Development Institute

Abstract

Increasing the Number of Female Managers in Public Service: Status by Occupation and Policy Issues

 

Mee-kyung Moon

Eun-kyung Kim

Bok-tae Kim

Hyo-kyung Kim

 

Against the backdrop of the rapidly changing structure of the population, it is assumed that government employees have also experienced fluctuations both in quantity and in quality. Therefore, such a situation should be analyzed on a long-term basis to enable balanced personnel policies (women’s affairs) to keep up with changes in population. Only when this is ensured, it is possible to come up with specific policies that will improve the acceptance and responsiveness of such personnel policies (women’s affairs).

 

Based on the theoretical position that the gendered bureaucracy will segregate occupations and positions in accordance with gender and lead to unfairness in access to power and resources and in personnel management, this study aims to analyze changes by gender and occupation in the government service as a whole. Research on the present and future of government employees by agency, occupation, and position will help understand to what degree the gendered bureaucracy has been weakened or strengthened and will produce basic data to present the future direction of policies for female government employees and to propose related specific policies.

 

Up to now, a diversity of affirmative action has been taken to improve gender balance among public officials but its effects have yet to be effectively assessed. It’s because policies for female government officials have been carried out on a macro-level. Therefore, such policies need to be more specified and customized by agency, occupation, and position in the future.