Colloquium in Dec. 2020 Yun, Jiyoung (Attorney at Law, GongGam Human Rights Law Foundation) This presentation is on how women workers’ working conditions in South Korea have been changed by COVID-19, based on presenter’s counseling experiences with Korean women employees this year. With her counseling cases in which many Korean Read more…
Colloquium in May 2020 Lee, Min-Ah (Professor, Department of Sociology at Chung-Ang University) This study analyzes how subjective well-being is associated with gender and fear of crime in South Korea, with multi-variate regression analysis of 2016 Korean General Social Survey data. According to the analysis, Koreans’ subjective well-being is negatively Read more…
Kim, Ee Sun and Keong Suk Park. 2019. “Life Course of Korean Women: Conflictual Gender Differentiation and Enforced Classification.” ECONOMY AND SOCIETY 122: 138-170. Korean women’s aspirations and practices for gender equality have been increasingly prevalent. However, the foundation of life is growing fragmented according to economic stratification, and family Read more…
Colloquium in Mar. 2019 Park, Hyunjoon (Professor, Dept. of Sociology at Univ. of Pennsylvania, U.S.) Based on the data from 1990 and 2010 Korean Census, this study analyzes how the decline in marriage rates during the recent 20 years in Korea is associated with the convergence in women and men’s Read more…
Seniority Based Pay System and the Relational Basis of Workplace Inequality Kwon, Hyunji and Ham, Sunyu. 2017. Korean Journal of Labor Studies 23(2): 1-45. This study aims at explaining organizational mechanisms of inequality that has been rising rapidly alongside the proliferation of irregular employment in the post-crisis Korean labor market. It argues that inequality is Read more…
Gender Inequality in the Labor Market after the Financial Crisis: Focused on the Gender Differences in Work Career and Wage Lee, Soon-Mi. 2015. Journal of Korean Women’s Studies 31(2): 91-129. To analyze whether the low quality of women’s employment is due to the effect of the life event, interruption or deepening gender inequality Read more…
Colloquium in Aug. 2018 Kim, Yujin (Professor, Dept. of Sociology at Kangwon National Univ.) This study analyzes whether and how cognitive aging patterns vary across cohorts in Korea, especially with a focus on their gender differences. The analysis is based on a 5,270 sample from Korean Longitudinal Study of Aging data which biannually surveyed Koreans aged 45 or Read more…
The Effect of Organizational Culture, Mentoring, and Social Network on Career Success of Managerial Women Lim, Hee Jung. 2009. Korean Organization & Management Studies 33(4): 95-120. In Korea, the proportion of women in management is exceptionally small and a variety of barriers are placed in the women’s routes to career Read more…
Korean’s Work-Family Balance Policy during 1990 and 2014 from the Perspective of Defamiliarization, Decommodification: Especially Focusing on Maternity Leave, Parental Leave, and Childcare Policies Jeon, Yoon-Jeon. 2015. Journal of Korean Women’s Studies 31(3): 179-218. This study aimed at looking into the developments of Korea’s work-family balance policy during the period Read more…
The Glass Ceiling in the Korean Public Service Lee, Joo-Hee, Young-Hee Han, Hyun-Jung Sung, and Jung In. 2007. Journal of Korean Women’s Studies 23(3): 79-115. This study investigates barriers that delay and/or hinder equitable promotion of women public servants in Korean central and local governments, based on in-depth interviews with Read more…