Abstract
Women and Future Changes In Korea | |||
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Type | Occasional | Period | 2012 |
Manager | Occasional | Date | 2012-08-03 |
Women and Future Changes In Korea
The study takes these deviations from the global trends as an outcome stemming from Korea's failure to prepare a set of effective and adequate gender policies for an upcoming gender-equal society. It is noted, on the basis of findings previous studies have made, that if Korean society keeps on marching towards a gender-equal society, some important risk factors have to be sorted out and to be properly dealt with via well-designed policy initiatives. Dearth in child-care services, low fertility rate, impoverishment and isolation of female-headed households, high level of joblessness among young and educated women, difficulties in striking a work-life balance, career rupture among married women, increase of low-paying jobs among female employees, marginalization of women in labor markets, and increasing threats to women's health; these are what the study focuses on as key risk factors that face Korean society on its road to gender-equal society.Finally, the study proposes various policy initiatives to overcome threats resulting from these risk factors in the following policy arenas; family and welfare, child-care, labor market, corporate organization and management, public finance and taxation, education and human resource development, social capital and local communities, immigration and multi-culturalism, and women's health. |