The Korean economic crisis and working women

Kim, Hae Jin; Voos, Paula B.

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“…Historically, Korean women were disadvantaged and socially marginalized in the workplace. Immediately following the Korean War in 1953, South Korea was a poor country that relied on export‐oriented industries with low salaries, such as clothing and textiles, where the majority of women were working as the primary sources of their earnings (Kim & Voos, ). As a result of a growing middle class and investments in the education of women during the 1980s and 1990s, women have gradually entered the highly masculine Chaebol workforce for professional and managerial employment (Seguino, ).…”

Section: Analyzing Csr Discoursesmentioning

confidence: 99%

Constructing gender identity through masculinity in CSR reports: The South Korean case

Lee

Parpart

2018

Business Ethics: A Eur Rev

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Drawing on the themes of men and masculinity, this article examines texts in the corporate social responsibility (CSR) reports of local multinational enterprises (MNEs) in South Korea, an emerging economy. This article explores how Korean male hegemony is hidden and naturalized in CSR reporting. Focusing on the discursive construction of gender identity, we analyze how CSR reports portray gendered identities in ways that may foster gender inequality by examining how the texts reflect the inferior position of women and marginalized male workers in the workplace. We review 15 CSR reports from Korean MNEs as a primary data source for examining corporate policies and disclosure on gender‐equality issues in the workplace. We explore the inherently embedded meaning of CSR reports to evaluate the masculine tone of gender relations in these texts. To deepen our understanding, we retrieved the original text segments, coded them by using a categorical framework and revisited our data to critically examine our interpretation of the narrative structures that we argue reflect and reproduce certain discourses of masculinity, through the (in)visibility of women, the marginalization of women and (part‐time) men, and the silencing of their voices by the Korean male hegemony.

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Section: Analyzing Csr Discoursesmentioning

confidence: 99%

Constructing gender identity through masculinity in CSR reports: The South Korean case

Lee

Parpart

2018

Business Ethics: A Eur Rev

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“…Equal opportunities laws are not only ineffectively enforced (Van der Meulen Rodger ), but lead to more females in irregular employment (Chun ) and facing employer pressure to resign when married/pregnant (Gelb, ), creating a de facto ‘marriage bar’ (Cooke ). There is also a lack of means to address discrimination through collective action as irregular workers (which many females are) and females are not welcome in male‐dominated (Cooke ; Nam ; Yoon ) and weak (Rowley and Bae ) trade unions, albeit with some change with a union for female contingent and small firm workers (Kim and Voos ).…”

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Female manager career success: the importance of individual and organizational factors in South Korea

Rowley

Kang

Lim

2015

Asia Pac J Human Res

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Our paper focuses on Asian female managers and the influence of individual and organizational factors on objective and subjective career success. We use a survey and interviews of female managers in South Korea post-1997 Asian financial crisis and pre-2008 global financial crisis. Importantly, we find male-dominated business and societal cultures stemming from the context to be crucial. The implications of our findings include the greater need to take into account the restraints on individual actions and the need for state and management support. We conclude that the role of context is too often underplayed and needs to be more fully addressed in analysis of female careers in not only Asia, but also more widely. Key points1 The article examines the influence of individual versus organizational factors on objective and subjective career success using both a survey and interviews of female managers in South Korea post-1997 Asian financial crisis and pre-2008 global financial crisis. 2 The article finds male-dominated business cultures stemming from the spatial context a crucial impact on female careers and the implications include the greater need to take into account the restraints on individual actions and context, and to provide more business and management support and understanding of female careers. 3 The article concludes that the role of context is too often underplayed and needs to be addressed in research on female careers.

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“…He attributed the fate of minority workers to both institutional factors-minority workers had acquired less seniority and were thus more vulnerable to layoffs in the monopoly sectors most affected by the recession-and to simple prejudice. In South Korea, Kim and Voos (2007) found that women were a "buffer" during the 1997-2002 economic down turn that followed the East Asian financial crisis: they were the first to be laid off and were "encouraged" to withdraw from the labour market to allow employment of male workers. Occupational segregation by sex in this case declined substantially.…”

Section: Theory and Hypothesesmentioning

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Into the Abyss: Occupational Segregation of Immigrant Workers and the Spanish Crisis 2006-2012

Allard¹,

Farber²

2016

JBTP

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Spain became one of the world’s top immigration destinations in the 21st century, with the share of migrants in employment climbing to a peak of 17% just as the crisis hit the country. How did these immigrants fare in a rigid labour market as the housing bubble burst and recession brought soaring unemployment? Our paper explores the occupational segregation of Spain’s immigrants and finds that it declined in the wake of the crisis. The improvement, however, obscures massive job destruction in temporary jobs and in the low-skilled sectors where foreigners were concentrated. The results point to the need for better skills and training and measures to tackle the deep permanent/temporary contract divide in Spain, to protect migrant workers as well as unskilled Spaniards.

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The Korean economic crisis and working women

Cited by 38 publications

References 15 publications

Constructing gender identity through masculinity in CSR reports: The South Korean case

Constructing gender identity through masculinity in CSR reports: The South Korean case

Female manager career success: the importance of individual and organizational factors in South Korea

Into the Abyss: Occupational Segregation of Immigrant Workers and the Spanish Crisis 2006-2012

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