대학내 취업지원체계의 여성배제구조 = Women's Exclusion from the Support System for Employment at the University

다국어 초록 (Multilingual Abstract)

This study examined how the unemployment of undergraduate women is connected to the "support system for employment" at the university. Until now, many studies on the employment of women focused on either the law enterprises or women themselves. However, the university is the sector which supplies the labor market with the labor force. Through the university, students are prepared for employment and provided a chance to get a job. Even though the university is the important starting place for the employment of educated women, the "support system for employment" at the university, such as the job placement agency, the career service center, and the briefings for employment, is operated for men.
This study started out with the awareness that it is crucial to examine the "support system for employment" in order to understand the employment of undergraduate women. I focused on the context to show that this system is operated in a male－dominated way. For this purpose, students and staff who were involved in employment at the university were interviewed and lectures and curricula on employment were prepared by the use of participant observation.
The major findings of this study are as follows.
First, the university designs the employment policy with the focus on the rate of employment for its image, but this policy is limited in solving the problems of women's employment. It comes from the truth that the rate of their employment is an important factor in evaluating the university. The way to evaluate is accelerated by the economic crisis, ignoring the reality that women have a low status in the labor market.
Second, women are excluded from the "support system for employment" due to the male dominant service. There are no programs specifically available for women's employment and women are not considered particularly important. Information about women's employment is not found. Therefore, undergraduate women are alienated from the career services.
Third, the university is a part of the mechanism that reproduces and enhances the structure of the sexual division of labor. Women do not have an even chance to be given a recommendation. Women are educated to believe that appearance and femininity are crucial for getting a job. The university filters out women before they enter the labor market and forces them to accept the demands of the labor market.
This practice conceals the fact that the "support system for employment" at the university is an obstacle to the employment of undergraduate women. In order to change this reality, the abolishment of gender discrimination in the process of recruiting and hiring must be carried out. The following may be appropriate alternatives.
First, the university should pay attention to women's employment, offer job education for women, and have a specialist for women's employment who is able to remove sexism from career services.
Second the government should carry out various policies which achieve gender equality in the career services at the university. It is necessary to take a gender sensitive perspective into consideration through the evaluation of the university and the establishment of educational policy. Also, the government should reinforce the law to regulate gender discriminatory employment practices.