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Differential Spaces in K orean Places? Feminist Geography and Female Managers in S outh K orea
Author(s) -
Gress Douglas R.,
Paek Jeeyon
Publication year - 2014
Publication title -
gender, work and organization
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.159
H-Index - 73
eISSN - 1468-0432
pISSN - 0968-6673
DOI - 10.1111/gwao.12028
Subject(s) - trips architecture , promotion (chess) , status quo , space (punctuation) , preference , business , economics , political science , politics , engineering , market economy , microeconomics , computer science , transport engineering , law , operating system
Is there evidence of new, differential space challenging entrenched, status quo abstract space at firms in S outh K orea? Based on quantitative analyses of responses from 360 survey participants, this study deploys a feminist geographical perspective to examine the careers of female managers in S outh K orea. Results include extensive descriptive statistics of waged and non‐waged work environments, motivations for work and career breaks, income expenditures, and gender‐based impacts on opportunities, networks and promotions in the workplace. An overall discriminatory atmosphere leads to decreased equality in opportunities to participate in training and business trips, which in turn leads to fewer promotions for female managers. Likewise, female managers in positions specifically designated for females receive fewer promotions. K orean firms have a stronger preference for sending men on business trips and more overall discriminatory atmospheres than foreign firms, while informal networks figure more predominantly into hiring and promotion at K orean firms. Finally, regression results indicate that both country of origin and organizational discriminatory atmosphere, despite concrete departmental and organizational policies geared toward the reduction of gender discrimination, negatively impact the percentage of female managers at firms in K orea.