Abstract
This article examines the limitations of the gender mainstreaming discourse regarding the issue of childcare by women in South Korea, an area of responsibility that was transferred from the Ministry of Health and Welfare (MHW) to the Ministry of Gender Equality (MGE)1 in 2003. Through employing a discursive institutionalism approach, this article articulates that whilst the gender mainstreaming discourse has been interpreted at the surface level of politics, it has been formulated differently behind the scenes due to various policy interests. I argue that the discourse has remained at the level of superficial political rhetoric with underdeveloped understanding about the relationship between childcare and gender, thus retaining a stereotypical view of women as caregivers.
Publisher
Cambridge University Press (CUP)
Subject
Political Science and International Relations,Sociology and Political Science
Reference73 articles.
1. The effects of expanded universal childcare support and working mothers in Korea
2. Conducting Interpretive Policy Analysis
3. Gender Mainstreaming: Productive Tensions in Theory and Practice
4. Lee, S-H. and Baek, S-h (2018) ‘The socio and political conundrum around the policy initiative of free childcare in South Korea’, The 15th East Asian Social Policy (EASP) Research Network Annual Conference: Social Policy in Post-Growth East Asia, 5-6 July 2018, University of Bristol, UK.
Cited by
2 articles.
订阅此论文施引文献
订阅此论文施引文献，注册后可以免费订阅5篇论文的施引文献，订阅后可以查看论文全部施引文献