가사 노동의 위기와 여성 = A Crisis of Women with Family Duties

다국어 초록 (Multilingual Abstract)

Heavy burdens of family duties, from housekeeping to raising children, bring about women’s identity crisis in today’s Korean society. Many of them experience a low self-esteem and a sense of resentment when those duties exhaust their life energy with simple repetitions of labor without significant meaning. However, children and family may continue to demand more from the women’s side, considering their commitment taken for granted. John Calvin introduced one’s job as a calling from God, which has put a solid foundation of the Western capitalism, according to Sociologist Max Weber. Women’s duties for the family equal a spiritual sacrifice to God from Calvin’s perspective. However, Calvin’s understanding of gender roles of his day may provoke a keen dissention even among his modern followers because of his ‘seemingly’ authoritarian position of husband in the family. His own family, as a matter of fact, practiced mutual respect and sincere care to one another. Without informed discernment, today’s Christians may misunderstand his teachings about gender roles in the family by essentializing women’s labor without full appreciation or compensation. By providing proper theological meanings and by giving genuine appreciation for women’s work at home, we may prevent them from deepening resentment and self-diminishing workaholism.

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