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The Kyunghyang Shinmun | Who Is Responsible for Elderly Care? Family Care Falls Solely on Women
According to the research conducted by Center for Transnational Migration and Social Inclusion, 85% of caregivers for the elderly were women. It is fact that “female” rather than the eldest son or parent-child has played a major role in becoming a primary caregiver. Dr. Hyuna Moon, who conducted the research, said “Our society has never agreed on who should be responsible for caring in the family, but the social perception that caring is women’s work strongly affects within the family, so women are dedicated to caring for the elderly.” From the other in-depth interviews, it can be seen that elderly care was a heavy burden to carry alone for a caregiver. Dr. Moon said, “The government-funded care service hours need to be expanded much more than now and this is not just a way to ease the intensity of family care work”. In terms of the fact that interviewed careworkers have pride in their works by considering that their care work is valuable and professional, care is more effective as being done by a third party, not the family. She argued that the social atmosphere in which intimacy is formed only by kinship must be changed so that socialization of care will take place and the government will take more responsibility for the care issue.
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Weekly Dong-A | Kavita Ramdas, Director of Women’s Rights Program at the Open Society Foundations: South Korea Can Lead the Way in Addressing the Care Crisis and Gender Inequality, as Highlighted in Kim Ji-young, Born 1982
On October 28, Kavita R. Ramdas, a global woman activist visited at Seoul National University(SNU). She joined the Open Society Foundation in August last year as the director of the Women’s Rights program and sponsored the Center for Transnational Migration and Social Inclusion under SNU in terms of working for an activity to regain rights to women’s bodies, care issue and various women’s movements. She thinks Korea can lead the care issue through working with Korean sociologists and economists. She shared the thoughts by saying “As seen in ‘Kim Jiyoung, Born 1982’, gender equality, aging and low birth rates cannot be solved without solving the care problems. Whenever I meet Korean women, I see them struggling with the problems of caring for their children and old parents. This is a crisis, and a crisis is an opportunity. The solution that Korea has found can be extended to the world.” She believes that gender conflict can eventually find a solution to understanding the other person. “If you accept this, you will soon realize that men are not women who hate or hostile, but who we are born,” she added. And she left the last message to the youth “I want you to keep in mind that the most necessary tool for men and women together to create a better world is tools with compassion.”
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The Kyunghyang Shinmun | Who Is Responsible for Elderly Care? Family Care Falls Solely on Women
According to the research conducted by Center for Transnational Migration and Social Inclusion, 85% of caregivers for the elderly were women. It is fact that “female” rather than the eldest son or parent-child has played a major role in becoming a primary caregiver. Dr. Hyuna Moon, who conducted the research, said “Our society has never agreed on who should be responsible for caring in the family, but the social perception that caring is women’s work strongly affects within the family, so women are dedicated to caring for the elderly.” From the other in-depth interviews, it can be seen that elderly care was a heavy burden to carry alone for a caregiver. Dr. Moon said, “The government-funded care service hours need to be expanded much more than now and this is not just a way to ease the intensity of family care work”. In terms of the fact that interviewed careworkers have pride in their works by considering that their care work is valuable and professional, care is more effective as being done by a third party, not the family. She argued that the social atmosphere in which intimacy is formed only by kinship must be changed so that socialization of care will take place and the government will take more responsibility for the care issue.
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Weekly Dong-A | Kavita Ramdas, Director of Women’s Rights Program at the Open Society Foundations: South Korea Can Lead the Way in Addressing the Care Crisis and Gender Inequality, as Highlighted in Kim Ji-young, Born 1982
On October 28, Kavita R. Ramdas, a global woman activist visited at Seoul National University(SNU). She joined the Open Society Foundation in August last year as the director of the Women’s Rights program and sponsored the Center for Transnational Migration and Social Inclusion under SNU in terms of working for an activity to regain rights to women’s bodies, care issue and various women’s movements. She thinks Korea can lead the care issue through working with Korean sociologists and economists. She shared the thoughts by saying “As seen in ‘Kim Jiyoung, Born 1982’, gender equality, aging and low birth rates cannot be solved without solving the care problems. Whenever I meet Korean women, I see them struggling with the problems of caring for their children and old parents. This is a crisis, and a crisis is an opportunity. The solution that Korea has found can be extended to the world.” She believes that gender conflict can eventually find a solution to understanding the other person. “If you accept this, you will soon realize that men are not women who hate or hostile, but who we are born,” she added. And she left the last message to the youth “I want you to keep in mind that the most necessary tool for men and women together to create a better world is tools with compassion.”
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