Gender inequalities in Korean family business: contradictions between show and tell

IF 3.1 Q2 BUSINESS
Amee Kim, Poh Yen Ng
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Purpose This paper explores how gender-related issues are communicated in Korean family-run conglomerates ( chaebols ) and the roles of women within these businesses. It also addresses to what extent the communication of chaebols about female employment and career development reflects the perception of gender representation in these organisations. Design/methodology/approach By paying attention to gendered discourse in Korean chaebols, this paper examines what is said and written about gender issues in glottographic statements (texts) and non-glottographic statements (charts and other visuals) of annual reports (ARs) published by five chaebols since 2010. The paper uses a Foucauldian framework to develop the archive of statements made within these ARs. Findings Although there is an increase in female-employee ratios, ARs show that number of women at the board or senior management level continue to be small. ARs tend to provide numbers related to female employment and retention in their non-glottographic statements, yet these numbers occasionally differ from and frequently are not explained by glottographic statements. The strategies used by chaebols to improve career prospects for their female staff are only vaguely described and rarely evaluated. Originality/value This paper looks beyond the existing discourse analysis on “talk and text” by also investigating claims made through graphic and linear/pictorial elements and their interplay with text. This approach opens new understandings of how gendered discourses are constructed and how they (unintentionally) fail to resolve issues and perceptions related to female employment and career development in Korea.
韩国家族企业中的性别不平等:展示与讲述之间的矛盾
本文探讨了韩国家族企业集团(财阀)中与性别相关的问题是如何沟通的,以及女性在这些企业中的角色。它还探讨了财阀关于女性就业和职业发展的沟通,在多大程度上反映了这些组织对性别代表性的看法。通过关注韩国财阀的性别话语,本文研究了自2010年以来五家财阀发表的年度报告(ARs)中,语言语言陈述(文本)和非语言语言陈述(图表和其他视觉效果)中关于性别问题的言论和文字。本文使用福柯式的框架来发展这些ar中的陈述档案。尽管女性员工比例有所增加,但调查显示,董事会或高级管理层的女性人数仍然很少。ar倾向于在他们的非门语陈述中提供与女性就业和保留有关的数字,然而这些数字偶尔与门语陈述不同,而且经常不能用门语陈述来解释。财阀为改善女性员工的职业前景而采用的策略,只有模糊的描述,很少进行评估。原创性/价值本文超越了现有的关于“话语与文本”的话语分析,还研究了通过图形和线性/图像元素及其与文本的相互作用所提出的主张。这种方法开启了对性别话语如何构建的新理解,以及它们如何(无意中)未能解决与韩国女性就业和职业发展相关的问题和观念。
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7.40
自引率
15.60%
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15
期刊介绍: Launched in 2009, the International Journal of Gender and Entrepreneurship (IJGE) aims to facilitate the natural evolution of the field of gender and entrepreneurship by drawing together the very best research contributions from around the world. The journal seeks to: -Provide a dedicated publication outlet for high calibre, international research of interest to scholars, entrepreneurs and policy makers in the field of gender and entrepreneurship -Offer a unique perspective on the practice of gender and entrepreneurship by including sections dedicated to practitioner and policy content -Support a more consistent global approach to the presentation of research in the field -Platform the work of dynamic young researchers and those who are in a position to offer new perspectives on this particular research area -Enable those active in the area as researchers, educators, trainers, practitioners, support personnel and policy makers to keep up to date with the field on an international level. The coverage of the journal includes, but is not limited to: Entrepreneurship, Female/Women’s entrepreneurship , Business, Management, Strategy, Gender, Economics, Internationalization, Marketing.
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