INEQUALITIES AT WORKPLACE TOWARD FEMALE WORKERS IN CHO NAM-JOO’S KIM JIYOUNG, BORN 1982

Authors

  • Maya Kurnia Dewi Universitas Ngudi Waluyo
  • Mochamad Rizqi Adhi Pratama Universitas Ngudi Waluyo

Keywords:

inequalities, workplace, novel

Abstract

Women’s participation in the labor market keeps increasing all over the world. However the increase does not really lessen the inequalities toward female workers, such as gender wage gap, disparity in promotion, and sexual harassment. Novel Kim Jiyoung, Born 1982 raises the inequalities in the workplaces in South Korea as one of the themes experienced by the main character and the other characters in the novel. This research applied a qualitative research to get the date needed to be observed according to the research problem. The data obtain that Jiyoung and her female colleagues experience wage gap compared with the male employees, the opportunities to get projects and promoted are rare and some of them experience sexual harassment at workplace. This research tries to prove that inequalities at workplace toward women still exist until now.

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Published

2022-04-26