Separate but Near: Senior Parents’ Living Arrangement and Married Women’s Employment in South Korea

Lee, Yun‐Suk

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“…However, there is a paucity of reliable statistics on how often or for how many hours per week such assistance is given. A number of studies report a positive influence on maternal employment from co-residing or living close to grandparents (for Japan, see Oishi and Oshio [2006]; for Korea, see Lee [2011]).…”

Section: The Context Of Work-family Conflict In Japan and Koreamentioning

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Babies, Work, or Both? Highly Educated Women’s Employment and Fertility in East Asia

Brinton

2019

American Journal of Sociology

143

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Highly educated women's likelihood of combining childrearing with continuous employment over the life course has increased among recent U.S. cohorts. This trend is less evident in many postindustrial countries characterized by very low fertility. Among such countries, Japan and Korea have exceptionally low proportions of women who remain employed after having children, despite aggressive government policies designed to encourage this. We draw on over 160 indepth interviews with highly educated Japanese and Korean men and women of childbearing age to uncover the central incompatibilities between married women's employment and childrearing. Individuals' narratives reveal how labor market structure and workplace norms contribute to a highly gendered household division of labor, leading many married women to either forsake employment or to consider having only one child.

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Babies, Work, or Both? Highly Educated Women’s Employment and Fertility in East Asia

Brinton

2019

American Journal of Sociology

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“…Explanations include work expectations developed prior to motherhood (Damaske 2011; Davis and Greenstein 2009), workforce opportunities and constraints (Gerson 1985; Stone 2007), the amount of support from domestic partners (Hochschild and Machung 2012), and the lack of availability of formal and informal child care (Bianchi and Milkie 2010; Dimova and Wolff 2008; Haan and Wrohlich 2011; Leibowitz, Klerman, and Waite 1992). Grandmothers’ help is one of the main forms of informal child care and, particularly in East Asia, is seen as the most important resource enabling mothers to keep working (Fu 2008; Y.-S. Lee 2011; Oishi and Oshio 2006). However, because studies have predominantly focused on the static relationship between child care support and women’s employment status, the process by which mothers negotiate this key support has been a black box.…”

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“…Scholars studying Korea have argued that child care provided by grandmothers is the most important resource in helping mothers to continue working (J. Lee and Bauer 2010, 2013; Y.-S. Lee 2011). Based on 100 in-depth interviews with married mothers, I show that regardless of family background and educational attainment, most women who sought child care support did receive it, and explained that it enabled them to remain in the hypercompetitive Korean labor market.…”

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Who Deserves to Work? How Women Develop Expectations of Child Care Support in Korea

2018

Gender & Society

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Who deserves to Work? how Women develop expectations of Child Care support in korea Eunsil Oh harvard university, usA This study extends our understanding of the positive relationship between kin-based child care support and mothers ability to stay in the workforce by examining why and how women seek such help. using 100 in-depth interviews with Korean mothers, i find that although child care provided by grandmothers helps mothers maintain their employment, a mother will ask for support only when she constructs strong career aspirations and generates agreement amongst family members that she deserves support. Both of these center around the notion of who deserves to work as a mother. Mothers' explanations of why they deserve support vary based on their educational backgrounds: less-educated mothers stress economic stability, whereas better-educated mothers emphasize the symbolic meaning of sustaining their high public status. Most mothers, however, feel the need to "prove" to themselves and to certain others that they deserve child care support. Based on these findings, i develop a theory of deservingness to explain how mothers account for their work and make decisions to seek child care support.

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Why do young women leave conglomerates? gender and the militarized workplace in South Korea

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2019

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Separate but Near: Senior Parents’ Living Arrangement and Married Women’s Employment in South Korea

Cited by 3 publications

References 26 publications

Babies, Work, or Both? Highly Educated Women’s Employment and Fertility in East Asia

Babies, Work, or Both? Highly Educated Women’s Employment and Fertility in East Asia

Who Deserves to Work? How Women Develop Expectations of Child Care Support in Korea

Why do young women leave conglomerates? gender and the militarized workplace in South Korea

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