Gender roles in korean culture

In the Korean culture women once enjoyed equal legal status with men, but that changed over the course of the Chosun Dynasty. During this period women were not to be seen by anyone outside the family and they remained confined at home. The only time a woman could go out, briefly, was in the evening. A bell would ring, warning men off the streets and women, cloaked from head to toe, would be allowed to run errands. Today, despite equal laws given to women, they are oven neither applied nor enforced.  Change is happening now, majority of Korean women do go to university, today. However, when they graduate, even if their grades are higher than their male colleagues, they are unlikely to be hired at the same job or pay level. Women are expected to make coffee and wipe the desks of their male colleagues still at this day. Companies still prefer to hire less-qualified males than invest in a woman who will leave when she marries or who will have family responsibilities that will prevent her working late or socializing with colleagues. They give women the benefit of the doubt, saying she women wont be good team member.

  I feel that even thought in the Korean culture there trying to make women equal its still the same thing as them not going outside. I feel that they try to portray that there trying to make women equal so women wont rebel. It’s crazy to me how women before couldn’t even go outside unaccompanied, that’s madness. Also a woman not having same pay as men is not a shock to me because even today in the United States the same practices are going on.

Anonymous. "Gender Roles    ." Gender Roles. Korea4expats, 29 Jan. 2013. Web. 18 Nov. 2013.