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[Eedoryeong]

I'm soliciting for helpful links, articles, stats, etc. that can help me put together a lesson plan on equality of the sexes in Korea - rather, the issues to date.

I've got it in four parts, and it's mostly reading and writing skills format as per the request of my co-teacher (boo!) but the other two parts (a time line of equality struggle in the west, and modern gender issues in the west) are pretty much ready to go. The only part that's a little on the lean side is the facts accumulation of just where Korean women have come from until now.

I have only a few time line facts

1983 Korea Women's Hotline founded - to end domestic & sexual violence against Korean women
1987 KWHL opens a shelter for women fleeing domestic violence
1988 KWHL deals with the first self-defense case for sexual violence
1999 - Anti-sex harassment law passed
2000 - male-female electoral representatives ratio law passed
2004 - first conviction of marital rape in the history of Korea
2005 - first overturning Confucian law by a widow, allowing her to manage her deceased husband's financial estate instead of it being passed to her infant son.
2007 - first successful lawsuit awarded (30million Won) to female ex-employee (of a video-game company) against her former boss. He fired her because she did not want to continue participating in mandatory after-work drinking sessions with staff and on one occasion at one of those drinking sessions was subjected to humiliating sexual innuendo made by her co-workers about her and another co-worker. (I think they tried to make her kiss him. She wanted to be home with her family. That tipped it for her and she took him to court.)

I think this timeline needs some filling out. I don't know if I need to go back as far as when all the orphanages used to be mostly girls, i.e. pre-war, but I think perhaps anything from the latter part of the last century (80's on would be good)

Can anyone help?

[GoldenPennies]

in my opinion women are 2nd class citizens in korea

[PigeonFart]

agreed.

Everytime my coworkers (female) put on that submissive baby voice when they use the phone it irritates me.

[kiwipenny]

Searched a little... not much to do at work today.. ^^

Maybe these can give you some facts to add ..


http://www.globalissues.org/news/2010/06/29/6145

http://blog.daum.net/kscpp/7890753 ( a blog but you could ask for their source )

I know these don't have many facts from the 80's .. but you are right .. hard to find

[callmeishmael]

You might be able to dig something out of this.

http://www.dasi.or.kr/eng/newsletter_eng.php

[Eedoryeong]

Thanks everyone. I'm well on my way to a completed lesson plan set. There is so much information to wade through, just getting a grasp on what the goals should be for this is itself a bear of a task.

I'm just now trying to find out when the 아이사랑 program started. I think that's a big boost to allowing families here to have kids without the mother suffering career/financial penalty.

[NYC_Gal]

I remember reading about pink "women only" parking spots in Seoul before moving here. It had something to do with it being safer to walk to their cars if the spots were closer. <<shrugs>>

I've yet to see one, though.

[nomad-ish]

[NYC_Gal]

Oh they exist. Nobody pays heed to the women only rule, though.

[nomad-ish]

^ too bad, i was hoping it was more likely to have available seats.

by the way, how can you tell it's women-only? what sort of sign do they have?

[NYC_Gal]

I don't even remember. When I moved here, my coteacher used to take me around on the subway to show me around, and pointed out that we were in a women only car, though there were men. I didn't read hangul my first month, so don't really recall.

[recessiontime]

yeah they are second class citizens, like in Japan.

but there's an all saying that rings true with me:

"50/50 means she owns you"