여성의 사회적 위치 ; 일, 가족, 국가와의 체계 분석을 위한 예비적 고찰

Women's Position in Society ; A Study on Their Work, Family and the State

This article attempts, as a preliminary step, to draw a picture of the interrelated structure of work organization, the family, and the state in formulating and maintaining sexual division of labour, and women's subordination. The basic assumptions of existing studies on women's work accept the definition of work as cash-related activities. It is argued in this study that the sexual division of labour and men's supremacy which gradually progressed with the development of modes of production is established in the form of male-breadwinner and female home maker through industrialisation. Secondly, such development is paralleled with a development of liberalism and the lack of theorization on the family in its paradigm left a deep mark in treating the matters related to the family in pre-modern concepts. The conservatism is one of the causes of gender asymmetry. The invisible nature of women's work in the family is closely related to their subordination in society and in order to overcome it, it is necessary to reformulate the relationshinps of individuals and the family, and the state which plays a large part in maintaining the divisions of the private and public spheres.