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More Protection, Still Gendered: The Effects of Non-Standard Employment Protection Acts on South Korean Women Workers

Title
More Protection, Still Gendered: The Effects of Non-Standard Employment Protection Acts on South Korean Women Workers
Authors
Lee, Joohee
Ewha Authors
이주희
SCOPUS Author ID
이주희scopus
Issue Date
2017
Journal Title
JOURNAL OF CONTEMPORARY ASIA
ISSN
0047-2336JCR Link

1752-7554JCR Link
Citation
JOURNAL OF CONTEMPORARY ASIA vol. 47, no. 1, pp. 46 - 65
Keywords
Non-standard workgender equalitystandard employment relationshipemployment protectionsocial rights
Publisher
ROUTLEDGE JOURNALS, TAYLOR &

FRANCIS LTD
Indexed
SSCI; SCOPUS WOS scopus
Document Type
Article
Abstract
The growth of non-standard work since the Asian financial crisis of 1997 has emerged as the central political concern in South Korea. Important legislative interventions, the Non-standard Employment Protection Acts, were introduced in 2007 to protect workers from insecurity and precarity. This article investigates the effects of the Acts on women workers by comparing the employment characteristics before and after the introduction of the law. The Acts reduced the proportion of non-standard employment to a certain degree, but employers continued discriminatory practices against women workers and aggressively took advantage of more precarious forms of non-standard work. Due to severe sex segregation in the dualistic labour market, more surreptitious forms of discrimination against women workers remained intact. The results of this study point to the fact that social protection for non-standard work and more egalitarian gender relations in the labour market require a new paradigm of social rights.
DOI
10.1080/00472336.2016.1223327
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