여성 시각장애인 근로자 실태

Abstract

The study aims to look into the actual employment conditions of women employees with blindness who had to overcome triple distress ‘women+ the blind+ employees’ through the first 「Panel Study on the Employment for the Disabled」, and prepare a basis for plans to solve the women blind’s employment and its related problems. The main findings and proposals according to the results are as follows. First, 40.9% of the women blind live without husbands in the actual employment status. In particular, separation by death accounts for 23.3% so that the service program for widows is really in need, and the construction of voice information system on the online site of common companies is required for job information. Second, regarding human capital, the certificates are tuned out to help job searching or job maintenance, and it needs employment service to increase human capital such as scholarship, certificates, and training. Third, as to health and household, the need for the regular checkup separately provided by the National Health Insurance Corporation is proposed in the aspect of disease prevention. In addition, the comprehensive service is required to support living and rearing during the training of job training participants in order to expand such job opportunities beyond unskilled position as the social support from pregnancy to delivery and rearing as well as the professional employment service for the women with disability.