A Study of the Patriarchal Characteristics at Workplace: Focused on the Perception of Employed Women in Chonbuk-Province

Original Article

Journal of the Korean Home Economics Association 2001;39(1):191-204.

전라북도 직장여성이 인식한 직장 내 가부장적 특성에 관한 탐색적 연구

이승미, 이성희

우석대학교 가정복지전공

A Study of the Patriarchal Characteristics at Workplace: Focused on the Perception of Employed Women in Chonbuk-Province

이승미, 이성희

ABSTRACT

The purposes of this study are to find the general trends of patriarchal characteristics at workplace and to investigate the differences according to related variables. The concept of patriarchal characteristics at workplace is defined in terms of three aspects of work, human relation, and sexual harassment. The data were obtained through 880 employed women living in Chonbuk-Province. The major findings were as follows : 1) As to the aspects of work and human relation, it was found that employed women very highly experienced the inequality such as sexual division of labor, sex-discrimination, sexual segregation, and women degradation. 2) Over the 90% of respondents reported that they had experienced the victimization of sexual harassment at workplace at least once. 3) The work-related variables(the type of occupation, the size of workplace, the length of employed women's continuance service, the ratio of employed women at workplace) in the degree of patriarchal characteristics were more important then demographic variables(age, education, marriage status)