한국의 여성정책: 쟁점과 경험적 함의

Abstract

The women policy has greatly developed in the area of law, system and policy from 1980's in Korea. After the 4th UN World Conference on Women, Beijing in 1995, the world organizations emphasized equal right for both gender should be premised to continue its development. And gender mainstreaming has suggested as a new paradigm for women development. During the recent decades, Korean society has accomplished to improve gender equality with women's development and started to establish gender sensitive policy in the areas of politics, economy and society. The women policy issues has continually increased in Korea. Its scope also expanded to various ways figuring not limited to women issues. However, there still remain some tasks to resolve in spite of these visible results. The degree of achieving gender equality in Korea is relatively lower than other OECD member countries in terms of specific indicators including GEM(Gender Empowerment Measure). Why the Korea's women right criterion lies on the low rank in the world although Korea impose law, system and policy related women in short period? What is the cause and how to solve? This article started these critical mind and research on the development of gender equality indicators which select in major fields carrying out gender equality policies. It analysed the reason why women right criterion remains on the Low level in spite of these results and suggested the empirical implication.