중년층 여성 직업능력개발 실태와 요구

Abstract

Enhancing women's labour participation rate becomes more critical in terms of securing gender equality, reinforcement of country's competitiveness, as well as reserving more manpower in the aging era. Compared with OECD countries, the level of Korean women's labour participation is considered low. In particular, the highly educated women who are in their 30s or 40s tend to retire from their careers as getting married and having children, and never come back labour market due to the low market demand, conservative culture at workplace and home. However, it is known that they still want to have jobs which allow them to balance their career and personal life. Government should pay special attention to the economic utilization of the middle aged women and provide supportive policies. This study is conducted to examine the current status of vocational education and training in various education and training organizations, and findings suggest the necessity of more elaborated policies specially dedicated to the middle aged women's needs for vocational and technical training.