여성 공무원의 승진 동기에 미치는 영향요인 연구 - 평등성과 공정성을 중심으로 -

Even though the number of female civil servants has been increasing, the percentage of female civil servants in high-ranking positions is still low. Discrimination against women in promotion (glass ceiling) would reduce motivations of female civil servants for promotion, and increase prejudice that females are inferior and passive in leadership positions. Furthermore, the lack of motivations for promotion could cause a vicious circle which may strengthen discrimination against female civil servants. To increase motivations of female civil servants for promotion, this study distinguishes formal equality which focuses on equal treatment between men and women, and equity which makes use of knowledge, skill, capacity of female. Also, this paper investigates which organizational management system is more effective in improving motivations of female civil servants for promotion. Using a survey data on central government civil servants in Korea, this paper shows that equitable organizational management system which makes efficient use of knowledge, skill of female has significant effect on increasing motivations of female civil servants. Interestingly, we can observe more significant effect in female civil servants on the age of 20s and 30s. Also, this paper shows that formal equality decreases motivations of male civil servants for promotion. Therefore, we need to consider paradigm shift of personnel policy from equal treatment between men and women to equitable organizational management system which makes use of knowledge, skill, capacity and focuses on human resource development of female.