Korean Society Still Has The Gender Discrimination

Recently, we can feel that the era of women power is now approaching because of the issues that some women presidents appeared for the first time. Last year, the first Korean woman general got into the news. So did the woman president in a drama, "Dae-mul.". Like this, women's position is different from before.

▲ Dilma Vana Rousseff(the first woman President of Brazil)

Ms. Song(the first Korean woman general)

Ms. Seo(the first woman President of Korea in the drama, "Dae-mul")

However, there are some places that they didn't accept the current of the times yet. That is the legal profession, Ms. Cheon is the only woman justice of the Supreme Court. Naturally, there is one more woman justice of the Supreme Court whose name was Ms. Kim. (Now, she became the National Rights and Interests Chairperson.) Also, Constitutional Court was more serious because there was no woman justice. When you compared the US Supreme Court with Korea Supreme Court, you can feel Korea still has male-oriented social structure because three of nine justices of Supreme Court are women in United States.

As I said in the last article, when you see the US women soldiers, you can feel that the gender discrimination will be meaningless. The field of war had been considered as men's roles. But when you see the U.S. military service, the proportion of women having experience fighting in wars is increasing. Today, the women soldiers account for sixteen percent of the total enrollment and are getting high ranking. Also, they did well enough in the war in Iraq and Afghanistan compared to men.

But when I searched the article below, there was little sexual equality in Korea.

The level of the Korean women's economic opportunity was the 35th place in 113 countries.

(An omission of a middle part)

In the result, the level of the Korean women's legal and social position was the 66th, a labor policy was the 53rd, a custom of labor relations was the 25th, financial accessibility was the 21st, education was the 33rd and business environment was the 39th place in 113 countries. The discrimination in the workplace, especially, was the worst, which was the 104th place.

- Korean women's discrimination in the workplace was the 104th place in the world, Hankyoreh News(2010. 7. 16)

This situation showed that we still have wrong thoughts, and women might be weak and inferior compared to men. I feel that the era of woman is far from us. When I saw that the media introduced the first OOO woman, I thought that there was still gender discrimination rather than now that the era of sexual equality has come. When is the time that we can live without the word, "Discrimination"?

Written by Yoon Jeongwon