| The Roles of Rural Women and Gender Inequality in Local Communities | |||
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| Author | Lim, Soyeong | ||
| Views | 32701 | Publication Date | 2022.03.29 |
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Background and Purpose ○Women’s roles are essential to maintaining local communitiesA local community includes a functional community where residents live in the same geographic space and share understanding and interests through mutual relationships. (Kim Kyeong-sup et al. 2012) in rural areas. They participate in the regional development and community care as well as farming labor, child/senior care, and household management. However, their status in society is limited to helpers or outsiders. This study aims to identify their position in rural communities and suggest alternatives to improve it. Specifically, it seeks to inspect female farmers’ representativeness in local society, recognition of their various activities for regional development, awareness of gender roles in community activities, and human rights violations against female farmers. Also, this study intends to suggest policy alternatives for the government and the private sector based on detected problems and causes. Research Methodology ○To achieve our goals mentioned above, we reviewed diverse prior literature, including related theories in sociology and women’s studies. Also, we studied relevant documents to check domestic policies to improve female status in rural communities, Japanese cases, and various private-sector endeavors to find implications for policies and other alternatives in the public and private areas. Also, we commissioned external experts to write manuscripts for our review. In addition, we conducted statistical analysis for domestic and Japanese policies. ○We conducted surveys targeting farmers. The surveys sampled nationwide farmers (848 women and 376 men) to inspect women’s awareness of their social and economic position, role sharing between genders, official recognition of female farmers’ contribution to local communities, and the state of gender-related human rights violations. ○We also interviewed female farmers, heads of local organizations, members of local development committees, executive members of local Nonghyup or agricultural cooperatives, leaders of non-official groups, and representatives of female farmers’ centers. (For more information, please refer to the report.) |
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