기혼여성의 성역할 인지 변화 연구: 양성평등교육 참여자를 중심으로

This study aims at investigating how married Korean women's recognition of gender roles have changed. The methodology of this research involved in-depth interview and observation. This research had been executed with the participants in a gender equality education of Korea Women's Hotline's G branch in Gyunggi province. The 6 participants were selected with the criteria that they be married women who have husbands, children, and parents-in-law. The results were as follows. Firstly, the learners had traditional recognition on gender roles before they participated in the gender equality education; they had internalized the traditional gender roles and had negative feelings on themselves. Secondly, the learners who had learned in the gender equality education escaped from the traditional gender roles and experienced changes in their viewpoints about themselves and society. Through this kind of program, the learners were able to change their viewpoints about them. Thirdly, the learners could grow in their self-esteems and changed their negative feelings about themselves into positive ones and experienced growth and development in their roles in their own family. Lastly, the changes of learners had effects on the other family members. Their children, husbands and parents-in-law also showed aspects of change according to the learner's changed attitudes about gender roles in the family.