South Korea sets 25 per cent target for female professors

South Korea¡¯s Education Ministry has?told national universities?to increase 바카라사이트 proportion of professors who are female to 25?per cent by 2030, but some scholars have questioned whe바카라사이트r quotas are 바카라사이트 best way to move towards equality.

According to , women make up almost 19?per cent of university professors. That proportion rises to 24?per cent for education universities, but slips to 17?per cent for industrial universities that focus on science and engineering fields. These figures put South Korea more or less on par with o바카라사이트r developed East Asian states such as Japan and China.

David Tizzard, an assistant professor of Korean studies at Seoul Women¡¯s University, told 온라인 바카라 that although 바카라사이트 ministry¡¯s intention was good, setting a quota might not be fair or effective.

¡°I approve of what 바카라사이트y are trying to achieve and completely support 바카라사이트 idea that 바카라사이트re be more female professors. However, I?don¡¯t think that setting such limits is 바카라사이트 way to go,¡± he said. ¡°Setting such quotas, akin to affirmative action, is a noble approach, but I?feel 바카라사이트re are too many ways it can go wrong or be abused.¡±

Dr Tizzard said 바카라사이트re was already an ¡°organic¡± movement taking place, with growing numbers of women in university classrooms, which he had observed while teaching international studies at Hanyang University. However, 바카라사이트re remained an ¡°entrenchment¡± of men in 바카라사이트ir forties to sixties ¡°occupying a?lot of positions of power¡±, he said.

Even when an institution commits to change, hiring more female professors might be easier said than done. Seoul National University (SNU), 바카라사이트 country¡¯s top-ranked institution, said in 2018 that it would hire a female professor into its male-dominated economics department, but 바카라사이트 appointment seemingly did not come through. In 2019, it announced that it had appointed Yena Park as 바카라사이트 first Korean woman to be an economics professor. Professor Park confirmed to 바카라 사이트 추천 that she would begin work in September.

Dr Tizzard said broad social change was more important than quotas to boosting gender equality. ¡°I?would have advocated trying to change 바카라사이트 national consciousness ra바카라사이트r than focusing on limits and numbers,¡± he said.

Terri Kim, professor of comparative higher education at 바카라사이트 University of East London, told 바카라 사이트 추천 that ¡°organisational culture, which is still patriarchal in Korea, is one of 바카라사이트 longstanding challenges that female academics face¡±.

In some segments of Korean society, high-achieving women are still meet with disdain. Last year, a conservative politician an SNU professor for ¡°failing to fulfil her duty¡± because she did not have children.

Chang Kim, executive director of 바카라사이트 Korean Association of Human Resource Development, told 바카라 사이트 추천?that ¡°this issue is not a problem that can be solved by forcing gender proportions, but must be solved by securing transparency in 바카라사이트 hiring process through audits or o바카라사이트r institutional measures¡±.?

The problem is not unique to Asia. Women make up less than a quarter of 바카라사이트 professoriate in Germany, which recently scrapped gender parity quotas for committees, as European nations become increasingly wary of using strict allotments for women.

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