합리적인 여성해기사 보호제도에 관한 연구

A Study on the Reasonable Protective System for Female Officers as Seafarers

Women are allowed to come on board, substantially, as officers in Korea from the year of 1995. The protective system for female officers is not enough yet. Though the number of female officers is increasing slowly, we need to have a reasonable and logical system to protect them. The biological difference between men and women is very big, so the protective system for motherhood is a simple way to admit the difference. We still have wrong general idea about woman and motherhood to understand the protective system. Therefore, it should be considered and changed by developing scientific technology. To protect woman and make a reasonable system for female officers. we have to change the general idea about them and agree that they are just human and have the equivalent right to male officers. I tried to suggest a system through the comparative study of domestic and international systems in this paper. In conclusion, I think the protective system for female officers has to be changed reasonably and reformed to protect the motherhood. And it should contain the same right between male and female officers as a human being.