Difficulties of Professional Women in Korea

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Descriptive Essay on “Difficulties of Professional Women in Korea” Korea’s first person to go to space has been named as 29 year old Yi So-Yeon, a female mechanical engineer. These days women in Korea share important feature in the society and their participating size increases continuously. Yet these growing size professional Korean women are finding their way difficult in the society: Women are highly challenged to compete against men in companies still dominated by men. In compared to their opposite sex, Korean companies disvalue women’s capacity and deprive women from their social duty. Korean women today are better educated than ever before. Beginning in the early 1980s, women began to enroll in the colleges and universities in record numbers. Now they demand a better role in the society. However, companies still have tendencies to rely more on men than women. Studies from the Korea Ministry of Labor in the year 2005 indicates that among companies having more than 1000 employees, only 3.3% of women are in the position of executive in Korea. Men dominated most of the executive position and make the important decisions of the company. The hiring and promotion pattern are still centered on men than women. Also according to the same study of the Ministry of Labor, women’s average wage in general is only about 60% of the average wage of man. The facts show how companies do not trust women as much as man. They still have tendencies to place women at homes and do not try to assign them important works. Yi So-Yeon was highly lucky to be selected as the first Korean astronaut since she was firstly picked to be a substitute for Go-San, the formerly selected male astronaut. Signs that show the inability of women in respect to man are not found in any area but companies willingness to change this situation do not seem to be satisfying for any of the women workers. A
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