노동자원으로서의 섹슈얼리티 연구 : 이십대 행사도우미를 중심으로 A Case Study of 'Event-Dowoomi' = A Study on the Characters of Labour Shown in 'Female Jobs' of Unmarried Women in Their Twenties

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This thesis explores how 'female jobs' are constructed and structured in labour market, by presenting a case study of 'event-dowoomi' which comes to the fore recently as a 'female promising job'. This study focuses on the social conditions where 'female jobs' are highlighted as a breakthrough for the solution to the problem of women employment in labour market contracted by economic recession in the late 1990s. In this social context, the followings will be explained : the marginalization of women s labor in labour market; what correlations female sexuality has with in the labour of unmarried women in their twenties.
To begin with, this thesis deals with various discourses of the unmarried female (especially in twenties) marginalization in labour market. Then, it explains the operating mechanism of female sexuality in relation to such discourses. What influences women s experiences of the marginalized labour have on the ways of unmarried women in their twenties is also discussed. Based of them, this thesis finally reveals the ways of how female sexuality as the precondition of female jobs is accepted in our society and analyses how female jobs are socially stuructured.
The results of my analysis are as following. First, 'event-dowoomi' is a 'female job', which is based on female/feminine characteristics. The unstable employment patterns derived from this make possible the irregular forms of temporary, part-time, and delegate jobs. Secondly, because the job of 'event-dowoomi' is unstable in employment and marginalized in labour market, women's experiences of even-helper make women value wage itself rather than its labour quality and their sense of accomplishment in the job. The wage-oriented tendency: which is very dangerous but natural, makes the labour category of 'event-dowoomi' ambiguous, because how much they are paid, not the content or kind of work, becomes a major variable to determine the value of the job. Thirdly, the precondition of 'event-dowoomi' as a female job is female sexuality. This becomes the cause that youth, beauty, heterosexual services, and labor of forgrounding female 'body' are naturally regarded as the characters of 'event-dowoomi' labour. Fourthly, in this way, these serve to marginalize women's labour force in labor market by functioning to get the idea widely-accepted that the labour, whose source is female sexuality, makes us see women's labour as simple and temporary human labour force to be thrown away after using.
These can be a serious threat to women s right of labour. 'Female jobs' as the labour whose source is female sexuality function to normalize women's experiences of labour and thus are a powerful way of controlling women and of accepting other mechanisms.