The use of colour makeup among young adult men has gradually increased in South Korea over the years. The trend casts a couple of research questions. What are women's responses to men's colour makeup? Are women's attitudes towards gender roles and gender equality related to their acceptance...
although it first drew my attention through the cloying, traditional, initializing gender roles it portrayed (Could my interlocutor in the elevator seriously imagine a man being
Gender Roles and Statuses Division of Labor by Gender. Gender and age have been the two fundamental influences in patterns of social organization. Housework is most commonly regarded as women's work even when a woman works outside the home. Industrialization and democratization have given women...
initializing gender roles it portrayed (Could my interlocutor in the elevator seriously imagine a man being asked to say those things? Couldanyone?), it also left me with a heavy sense of just how unsafe women felt even back then, the grim, more recent statistics in all those links above ...
While employment opportunities for women in South Korea have improved, they still tend to occupy low-paying jobs and are less likely to advance to higher management roles than men.Women still earn significantly less than men, making the country’s gender pay gap the highest in the OECD. The ...
South Korea, even its trendy capital, is a difficult place to be a woman. The wage gap between the sexes is the highest in the rich world. Traditional expectations about gender roles, beauty standards and the way women should conduct themselves remain pervasive.“Misogyny surrounds you so natur...
but also spend all their time fraternizing with coworkers and women rather than spending it with their children. This aspect of Korean culture is toxic to families, and is one of the reasons I don’t believe I could raise a family in Korea. I am truly interested to hear how other marrie...
Lee Young-jaDepartment of Sociology The Catholic University of Korea PuchonAsian Journal of Women's StudiesLee, Young-ja(2000).Consumer Culture and Gender Identity in South Korea. Asian Journal of Women's Studies ,6(4),11-38.
Choose a region: South Korea Over the past few years, women in South Korea have been taking on more active roles in both society and the workplace. This ongoing progress has resulted in an increase in the labor force participation rate for women and a rise in the gender pay gap. Addition...
Katherine Spowart, who runs the beauty blog SkinfullofSeoul, stressed that Korean men still face specific social pressures: “Male beauty is generally much more accepted as a concept in South Korea, but it doesn’t relieve each gender of their traditional roles in mainstream culture,” she said...