Gender in Modern East Asia

Molony, Barbara; Theiss, Janet; Choi, Hyaeweol

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“…Japón fue el primer país en introducir el permiso en 1947, pero ya se había debatido veinte años antes, en 1928 cuando, según Molony (2016), las conductoras de la Compañía Municipal de Autobuses de Tokio exigieron días libres para no tener que renunciar a su trabajo por las ausencias mensuales relacionadas con el periodo. Las ausencias estaban en este caso más relacionadas con la imposibilidad de acceder a productos higiénicos para la gestión de la menstruación que con el dolor provocado por ésta.…”

Section: Baja Menstrual: Experiencias Internacionalesunclassified

La menstruación en el entorno laboral

De la Iglesia Aza,

Solymosi-Szekeres

2024

Lan Harremanak

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El acercamiento interdisciplinario más reciente al fenómeno de la menstruación ha acuñado el termino salud menstrual. Este concepto ha entrado en la legislación laboral principalmente a través de la institución de la baja menstrual. En este artículo se realiza una investigación comparativa basada en la bibliografía y jurisprudencia internacional sobre la salud y el permiso menstruales. Es imprescindible el acercamiento a este fenómeno para una legislación laboral sostenible, ya que la salud menstrual afecta a la legislación laboral no sólo desde la perspectiva de los derechos fundamentales, sino también para lograr la igualdad de trato, vinculándose a unas condiciones de trabajo justas y decentes. A nivel internacional no existe una solución jurídica común, si bien es una cuestión con relevancia global, hasta la fecha cuenta con muy limitados acercamientos jurídicos. El objetivo de este estudio es subrayar la necesidad de regular la menstruación en la legislación laboral.

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Section: Baja Menstrual: Experiencias Internacionalesunclassified

La menstruación en el entorno laboral

De la Iglesia Aza,

Solymosi-Szekeres

2024

Lan Harremanak

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“…CorporaJons expected the salaryman to work long days to advance Japan's economy-one considered to be thriving-and extend that moJvaJon to the evening by meeJng with coworkers and potenJal businessmen. 23 These expectaJons resulted in the demand for structures like the NCT that sought to be a second home to the salaryman. Rather than commuJng back into the suburbs aber a long working day, he could instead own a convenient second home in the city, only a few blocks away from his office.…”

Section: Housing the Salaryman And The Housewifementioning

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“…25 Although women in various social classes-especially those occupying lower classes-worked throughout and aber the war, stepping into roles previously occupied by men, women were ulJmately dismissed as parJcipants in Japan's corporate work force in favor of relegaJng them to the home. 26 The "suburban housewife" developed in conjuncJon with the salaryman idenJty and served as the harmonious companion to the husband. In fact, Sociologist Daphne Spain argues that the housewife made the salaryman/breadwinner imagery possible, because it rendered women invisible in the home and made women reliant on men for economic stability.…”

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Invisible Infrastructure: Reinforcing Postwar Gender Inequality in Tokyo’s Nakagin Capsule Tower

Whaley

2024

Athanor

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1970s Japan saw major changes in the way society lived and worked. A changing family structure, one led by the patriarchal “salaryman,” created new demands for housing. The Nakagin Capsule Tower, completed by architect Kisho Kurokawa in 1972, formerly located in the business district of Shimbashi, Tokyo, Japan, was Kurokawa’s utopian model for Japan’s salarymen. This presentation investigates how the Nakagin Capsule Tower inscribed gendered institutional thought in its construction, restricting women to the home and maintaining male power in the public sphere. Moreover, I explore the relationship between the construction of masculinity and urban space in postwar Japan and discuss the ways in which a housewife is unable to fulfill societal expectations within the Nakagin Capsule Tower. While Kurokawa believed the Nakagin Capsule Tower was a utopian architecture that would improve society, it maintained the salaryman/housewife relationship that prevented Japan from socially evolving to include women in their workforce and reinforced the city as a place only for men in service to the economy. This assessment investigates how the built environment has the power to detract from women’s opportunities outside of the home and the ways architecture met the social demands of men in postwar Japan.

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“…Confucianism, which influenced Asian cultures, does not attack homosexuality in an overt way. Instead, it includes social and familial hierarchical schemes that strictly stress traditional moral norms (Kim 1996;Molony, Theiss, and Choi 2016).…”

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“…As Archer and Lloyd (2002) argued, the American participants reported that boys and girls experience strong peer-group pressure to conform to their gender role. The Korean participants pointed out the patriarchal context of Korea, where traditional Confucian beliefs operate as social control mechanisms for both women and men to keep them in their place (Kim 1996;Molony, Theiss, and Choi 2016). Another difference between the two countries is teachers' attitudes toward homosexuality.…”

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A Comparative Analysis of Korean and American Prospective Teachers' Perceptions of LGBTQ Issues

Shin

2019

EAC

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Korea and the US have different levels of tolerance toward homosexuality. At the same time, the school in both countries is considered to reinforce homophobia and heteronormativity. This study focuses on juxtaposing Korean and American prospective teachers to compare their past and current understanding and attitudes toward homosexuality. The research highlights the differences and similarities between the attitudes of the prospective teachers from the two countries and analyses reasons behind these attitudes. This study also examines how the participants face their own biases, understand the complicated issues related to sexual minorities, challenge their own perceptions, and decide whether they would change or keep them. Ten Korean and 10 American prospective teachers participated in a journal writing project guided by anti-homophobic discourses. In the beginning of the project, the Korean participants displayed greater homophobia in a more drastic way than the American participants did. However, the difference between the two countries might be only superficial in that heterosexuality is placed as a norm in both countries. In other words, even though homosexuality is more tolerated in American society, it does not mean that it is accepted as part of the norm. At the end of the project, the American and the Korean participants agreed that heterosexist beliefs and practices permeate society and that such social institutions as schools play an important role in reproducing and reinforcing homophobia. However, three American participants remained silent on the final question of whether they would fight against homophobia and three Korean participants decided not to support homosexual issues. If one says nothing, one cannot be accused of homophobia. By their silence, they voiced their true feelings on the issue, that they didn’t support it, showing that silence is far from neutral in a heterosexual society.

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Gender in Modern East Asia

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La menstruación en el entorno laboral

La menstruación en el entorno laboral

Invisible Infrastructure: Reinforcing Postwar Gender Inequality in Tokyo’s Nakagin Capsule Tower

A Comparative Analysis of Korean and American Prospective Teachers' Perceptions of LGBTQ Issues

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