Analyzing the Gender Division of Labor: The Cases of the United States and South KoreaAnalyzing the Gender Division of Labor: The Cases of the United States and South Korea
- Other Titles
- Analyzing the Gender Division of Labor: The Cases of the United States and South Korea
- Authors
- 김희강
- Issue Date
- 2009
- Publisher
- 경남대학교 극동문제연구소
- Keywords
- Korea; United States; women and gender studies; division of labor
- Citation
- Asian Perspective, v.33, no.2, pp.181 - 229
- Indexed
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KCI
- Journal Title
- Asian Perspective
- Volume
- 33
- Number
- 2
- Start Page
- 181
- End Page
- 229
- URI
- https://scholar.korea.ac.kr/handle/2021.sw.korea/121836
- ISSN
- 0258-9184
- Abstract
- The purpose of this article is to present women’s reality in the
context of the gender division of labor in the family. For this
purpose, I conduct practical as well as normative analyses of
the gender division of labor. By examining women’s situations
and their choices in the family and in the labor market
in the United States and South Korea, the article shows why
and how American and South Korean women similarly suffer
from the major injustice caused by the gender division of
labor. In both countries women and men tend to do (are
expected to do, or are likely to choose to do) different kinds of
work. Many women perform housework and childcare
whether they work outside the home; many men perform
market work and have less responsibility for housework and
childcare than women do. This gender division of labor is one
of the main causes of women’s oppression, especially in current
society, where women’s work is less valued than men’s
work. I examine the mechanisms by which the gender division
of labor creates, maintains, and reproduces disadvantageous
situations for women in different cultural and national
circumstances.
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