양성평등문화정책 구축을 위한 문화예술계의 성 격차에 대한 탐색적 연구

Abstract

This study is motivated by an awareness that the grim practices of sexual harassment and assault prevailing in the culture and art community, which have eventually triggered the #Me Too movement, is fundamentally originated from the structurally defective gender hierarchy that has adversely influenced gender equality in the private culture and art sector, public cultural and art institutions, and the government's cultural and art policies. This study was intended not only to examine the gender ratio across the culture and art sector to demonstrate the ingrained quantitative gender inequality therein, but to investigate the status quo of gender inequality in hierarchically structured organizations, gender disparity in the culture and art community, and gender gap in leadership positions to analyze how women culture and art professionals are actually treated in the working environment. Analysis results have shown that although female resources generally outnumber male resources throughout the culture and art sector, the overall gender ratio in creation-related positions and relevant institutions is almost equal, which implies that females are slightly outnumbered by males in the employment rate. However, what is worse is that gender gap is wider in such decision-making and leadership positions as high-ranking officials or executives at culture and art-related organizations. Even though such gender gap is prevalent in all areas of Korea, it has been verified though this study that gender inequality in the culture and art community is much more deep-seated and profound than any other sectors. Therefore, it would be necessary to explicitly define the legal and institutional basis for improving gender equality in decision-making and leadership positions within the culture and art sector, and develop detailed plans to ensure compliance such as evaluation of achievement to goals. On top of that, continuous efforts should be made to; Improve poor statistics regarding the employment of culture and art professionals and the labor market; Develop detailed indexes of gender gap among staff of current public institutions to understand the status quo of gender equality in the labor market; Segment gender equality employment surveys of culture and art professionals; Check actions and efforts taken for gender mainstreaming; Develop a feedback system.