I am currently an undergraduate at Rice University. I am a Third Culture Korean-American who was born in Connecticut and have since lived in five other cities. I am undeclared but interested in sociology, psychology, kinesiology, and nutrition. During my free time, I enjoy baking, coloring, working out, and spending time with my family and friends.

Detailed Article Proposal

When South Korea ranks “high” on certain equality indices, people assume that South Korean women are protected, respected, and free. However, gender inequality in South Korea is a deep-rooted, rampant injustice that harms its people politically, socially, psychologically, and economically. Growing up in a Korean family, I’ve seen and experienced the inequality in the expectations and roles of women. What I hope to achieve by revising and expanding the Gender Inequality in South Korea article is to describe the natality, professional, and household inequalities that are often overlooked and reveal the debilitating effects of these injustices.

First, I will add a paragraph to the introduction of the article that briefly describes the prevalence of gender inequality in South Korea and its effects. I decided to organize the article according to the three types of inequality that are most common in South Korea.

1 Gender Statistics // 2 Global Rankings: I will add more updated statistics if possible and organize these sections in a clearer way, potentially with bullet points or a table. I will also add a short paragraph regarding issues about specific indices and measurements under “Global Rankings.”

3 History: Since this is such a broad topic, I will focus on aspects of history that contributed to gender inequality and/or perpetuated gender inequality, such as the period of comfort women, Park Geun-hye’s election and scandal, etc. I will also show the changes or lack of change in gender inequality throughout history.

4 Culture: Similar to the “History” section, I will focus on aspects of South Korean culture that drive and perpetuate gender inequality, such as Confucian values, traditional gender roles and expectations, etc. The original article contains basic information about this already, so I will add more specific evidence and information from scholarly sources.

5 Natality Inequality: I plan for this section to be relatively short, but I do want to include information about sex ratios and South Korea’s missing women. If this section is too short, I will add this information as a subtopic under “Gender Statistics.”

6 Professional Inequality // 6.1 Employment: This section will revolve around the wage gap, employment, and gendered professions. I will describe gender discrimination in the workplace and explain why it occurs. I will also add information about maternity leave, the economic effects of underutilizing women, etc. This section will be the longest because it is the most studied gender inequality in South Korea.

7 Household Inequality: This section will focus on household inequality as a result of traditional Confucian gender roles. I will describe examples of this inequality, add more specific evidence and information from scholarly sources, and show how household inequality perpetuates many other types of inequality.

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