韩国拥有博士学位的高学历女性的就业机会事件

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Yonjoo Cho, Jieun You, Yuyeon Choi, Jiyoung Ha, Yoon Hee Kim, Jinsook Kim, S. Kang, Seunghee Lee, Romee Lee, Terri Kim
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本定性研究的目的是探讨在传统文化价值观与男性主导的组织文化并存的韩国背景下,高学历女性如何应对职业机会事件。设计/方法/方法作者对国内外受过高等教育的女性进行了50次半结构化访谈,这些女性被称为具有博士学位的女性。作者采用了与10名韩国出生的研究人员组成的团队的合作研究过程,这些研究人员通过讨论大型数据集的收集和分析,就研究主题达成了共识,从而减少了定性研究中固有的研究人员偏见问题。在对收集到的访谈数据的分析中,作者报告了三个主题:获得博士学位之前、博士学习期间和博士学习之后,以及对职业生涯中偶发事件的反应(应对策略)。在韩国,受过高等教育的女性攻读博士学位是维持工作与生活平衡的一种方式,因为女性被认为是主要的照顾者。在获得博士学位后,参与者在男性主导的高等教育中努力争取有限的就业机会。女性的意外和意外事件与韩国男性主导的文化交织在一起,事业中断作为这种偶然事件,无论是自愿的还是非自愿的,主要是由于家庭原因而发生的。在这方面,受过高等教育的妇女主要在个人和家庭一级对偶然事件作出反应,并明确表示需要在组织和政府一级提供支助。研究局限/启示研究结果证实了文献中关于在男权文化盛行的非西方国家,女性的职业生涯受到传统家庭角色的限制。特别是,女性的职业中断是一个关键的偶然事件,主要是因为家庭问题而中断或推迟了她们的职业生涯。今后需要进行研究,以确定影响妇女决定自愿和非自愿中断职业的个人因素和环境因素,作为她们对偶然事件的反应。基于受过高等教育的女性在个人和家庭层面的应对策略,我们建议制定国家人力资源开发政策,以免失去培养具有博士学位的受过高等教育的女性作为国家可持续经济增长的优质劳动力的机会。此外,组织需要与政府的政策和计划保持一致,为工作场所的女性提供发展计划,从高学历女性的职业规划开始,同时创造促进性别平等的组织文化作为一个长期目标。独创性/价值参与者自愿的职业休息帮助他们照顾孩子,参与孩子的教育,在长时间工作多年后反思工作与生活的平衡,并带着个人满意度向前发展。自愿离职可以被理解为受过高等教育的女性应对偶然事件的独特方式。
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Career chance events of highly educated women with doctoral degrees in South Korea
Purpose The purpose of this qualitative study is to explore how highly educated women respond to career chance events in a Korean context where traditional cultural values and male-dominated organizational culture coexist. Design/methodology/approach The authors conducted 50 semi-structured interviews with highly educated women operationalized as women with doctoral degrees in and out of Korea. The authors used a collaborative research process with a team of ten Korean-born researchers who have built consensus on research themes through discussions on the collection and analysis of a large data set, thus reducing the researcher bias issue inherent in qualitative research. Findings In an analysis of the interview data collected, the authors report on three themes: before obtaining a doctoral degree, during and after their doctoral study and responses (coping strategies) to chance events in their careers. Highly educated women’s pursuing a doctoral degree was a way to maintain work–life balance in Korea where women are expected to take a primary caregiver role. After obtaining a doctoral degree, participants struggled with limited job opportunities in the male-dominated higher education. Women’s unplanned and unexpected chance events are intertwined with the male-dominated culture in Korea, and career interruptions as such a chance event, whether voluntary or involuntary, happened largely due to family reasons. In this context, highly educated women responded to chance events largely at individual and family levels and articulated the need for support at organizational and government levels. Research limitations/implications The study findings confirm the literature that women’s careers are limited by traditional family roles in non-Western countries where strong patriarchal culture is prevalent. Particularly, women’s career interruptions surfaced as a critical chance event that either disrupts or delays their careers largely because of family issues. Future research is called for to identify both individual and contextual factors that influence women’s decisions on voluntary and involuntary career interruptions as their responses to chance events. Practical implications Based on highly educated women’s coping strategies largely at individual and family levels, we suggest national human resource development policies put in place not to lose out on the opportunity to develop highly educated women with doctoral degrees as a quality workforce for a nation’s sustainable economic growth. Additionally, organizations need to be aligned with the government policies and programs for the provision of developmental programs for women in the workplace, beginning with highly educated women’s career planning, while creating organizational culture to promote gender equality as a long-term goal. Originality/value The participants’ voluntary career breaks helped them care for their children, be involved in their children’s education, reflect on work–life balance after having long hours of work for many years and move forward with personal satisfaction. Voluntary career breaks can be understood as highly educated women’s unique way of responding to chance events.
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