Trends in Gender-based Health Inequality in a Transitional Society: A Historical Analysis of South Korea

Women account for over eighty percent of recent North Korean defectors arriving in South Korea, yet there is dearth of gender-based research. Given the speed with which the dialogue on denuclearization with the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (DPRK, North Korea) has progressed since 2017, there is a surprising gap in research on possible health threats. If sanctions are eased, interactions with these previously isolated people will increase leading to potential health problems. This article reviews studies published since 2000 to understand physical and mental health faced in DPRK, among North Korean defectors to South Korea, and to provide policy recommendations. A content analysis of ninety studies found that mental health challenges are severe for North Korean defectors, and that women suffer differently than men during defection and its aftermath. We recommend a more nuanced and gendered approach for future research in order to devise tangible solutions to improve the health of North Koreans in general, and defector women and children in particular.

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Another Kind of R & R: An Historical Analysis of the Camptown Clean-Up Campaign and the Reinforcement & Regulation of Camptown Prostitution in South Korea, 1971-1976

10.33790/jmhsb1100126 ◽

2020 ◽

Vol 2 (2) ◽

Keyword(s):

South Korea ◽

Historical Analysis

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SOME POLICIES TO IMPROVE THE QUALITY OF HUMAN RESOURCES IN SOUTH KOREA AND SINGAPORE BETWEEN 1961 AND 1979

Globus: psychology and pedagogy ◽

10.52013/2713-3060-43-3-1 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 7 (3(43)) ◽

pp. 3-8

Author(s):

hi Thanh Huyen Tran ◽

Minh Chau Phan

Keyword(s):

Human Resources ◽

South Korea ◽

Human Resource Development ◽

Comparative Method ◽

Historical Analysis ◽

Development Strategies ◽

Ethnic Conflicts ◽

Key Factors ◽

Park Chung Hee

South Korea and Singapore faced several challenges in the early 1960s, including unemployment, ethnic conflicts, rising crime, etc. Faced with that situation, President Park Chung Hee and Prime Minister Lee Kuan Yew conducted a strategic plan and launched a series of appropriate policies to recover the country’s economy. The plans to develop human resources for domestic industry are key factors deciding the success of these two countries. It is also the secret for them to achieve their current remarkable and miraculous progress. In this paper, the authors uses historical analysis, statistical method, comparative method, and data analysis to study some human resource development strategies of South Korea and Singapore from 1961 to 1979. Thereby, the author will find out the similarities and differences in their development strategies.

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North Korea's Terrorism Against South Korea: An Historical Analysis of Their Political Background and its Characteristics

International Journal of Comparative and Applied Criminal Justice ◽

10.1080/01924036.1994.9689026 ◽

1994 ◽

Vol 18 (1-2) ◽

pp. 1-26

Author(s):

YOON SOO CHOI

Keyword(s):

South Korea ◽

Historical Analysis ◽

Political Background

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Toward an Intersectional Approach to Health Justice

International Journal of Health Services ◽

10.1177/0020731420981857 ◽

2020 ◽

pp. 002073142098185

Author(s):

Arnel M. Borras

Keyword(s):

Public Health ◽

Social Justice ◽

Health Inequality ◽

Health Inequity ◽

Wealth Creation ◽

Race Ethnicity ◽

Gender Based ◽

And Gender ◽

Health Justice ◽

Ethnicity And Gender

Despite unprecedented global wealth creation, health inequity—the unjust health inequality between classes and groups among and within countries—persists, reviving the relevance of social justice as a lens to understand and as an instrument to intervene in these issues. However, the theoretical aspects and polysemous character of social justice as applied in the field of public health are often assumed rather than explicitly explained. An intersectional justice approach to understanding health inequality, inequity, and injustice might be useful. It argues that preexisting class-, race/ethnicity-, and gender-based health injustice and the socially differentiated impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic are shaped, interconnectedly, by economic maldistribution, cultural misrecognition, and political misrepresentation. Pursuing health justice requires analyses, strategies, and interventions that integrate the economic, cultural, and political spheres of redistribution, recognition, and representation, respectively. Such an intersectional approach to health justice is even more relevant and compelling in light of the COVID-19 pandemic. This article is broadly about class, race/ethnicity, and gender political economy of public health—but with a narrower focus on maldistribution, misrecognition, and misrepresentation, shaping social and health injustices.

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"Stepping up to the Call:" A Historiographical Analysis of Gender in 1930s Soviet Russia

HPS: The Journal of History and Political Science ◽

10.25071/2291-3637.40244 ◽

2017 ◽

Vol 5 ◽

Author(s):

Habiba Khaled

Keyword(s):

Historical Analysis ◽

Women's History ◽

Analytical Tool ◽

Gender History ◽

Gender Based ◽

Soviet Russia ◽

And Gender ◽

Women’S History ◽

The Way

In 1986 Joan Scott published “Gender: A Useful Category of Historical Analysis,” an article examining the disconnect between the way in which gender is explored within the scholarship and gender history itself. In her work Scott operationalized gender as a framework. Utilizing Scott's framework, this historiographical analysis explores the question of gender as an analytical tool within the scholarship on 1930s Soviet Russia. Works produced prior to and post Scott's “calling” are categorized based upon a gender-based spectrum. Works are categorized as being: descriptive history exploring women; women’s history; beyond women’s history but short of gender history; and gender history. Situating the scholarship of 1930s Soviet Russia alongside Scott's conception of gender history allows for exploration of the evolution of gender- as an analytical tool utilized in the scholarship. Contrasting Scott's conception with scholars' usage of gender alludes to why gender, as a lens, is often overlooked.

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Ulama Perempuan dan Dekonstruksi Fiqih Patriarkis

ISLAMICA Jurnal Studi Keislaman ◽

10.15642/islamica.2010.5.1.161-174 ◽

2014 ◽

Vol 5 (1) ◽

pp. 161

Author(s):

Yayuk Fauziyah

Keyword(s):

Historical Analysis ◽

Linguistic Analysis ◽

Its Analysis ◽

Religious Text ◽

Islamic Thought ◽

Critical Method ◽

History Of ◽

Gender Based ◽

The Masses

In the historiography of Islam, female ulama did not as yet receive a sufficient attention from both the historians and the masses. It is this unfortunate thing that this paper is concerned with. It traces the origin of this marginalization—as it were—and finds out that all this is due to the domination of male ulama in the whole history of Islamic thought. While this domination might be acceptable for some, the unfortunate thing is that the male ulama in their turn will offer the patriarchal interpretation of Islam often at the expenses of women. This paper challenges this form of interpretation and calls for the necessity of methodological deconstruction toward a better and more humane understanding of Islam. It supports the efforts of Muhammad Arkoun whose critical method focuses on four stages of analysis in relation to the interpretation of religious text. These are historical analysis, anthropological, sociological and linguistic analysis. The first three are contextual while the fourth is textual. In its analysis, the paper employs an approach that represents a sound and acceptable balance between patriarchy and matriarchy. It believes that gender-based prejudices must be eradicated if we are to produce enlightened discourses of religion.

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Examining the gendered organizations: evidence of institutional discrimination

International Journal of Organizational Analysis ◽

10.1108/ijoa-06-2021-2811 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol ahead-of-print (ahead-of-print) ◽

Author(s):

Anselmo Ferreira Vasconcelos

Keyword(s):

Historical Analysis ◽

Sources Of Information ◽

Multiple Sources ◽

Gender Preferences ◽

Level Indicator ◽

Institutional Discrimination ◽

Content Type ◽

Gendered Organizations ◽

Gender Based ◽

The One

Purpose The purpose of this study is to examine how a group of special companies, i.e. highly acknowledged and awarded ones operating in Brazil handle the gender issue. Design/methodology/approach This investigation relies on historical analysis by addressing essentially a surface-level indicator (i.e. gender preferences). Rather, this study is grounded on data from the companies that were awarded as one of the best organizations to work for in Brazil by Época-Great Place to Work® Institute and Guia Você S/A lists (between 2012 and 2016). As a result, four organizations were selected, that is, the most representative examples of gender doing. Findings Overall, it found that the glass ceiling is apparently breaking down within at least some germane Brazilian organizations. However, data suggest that other sorts of institutional discrimination may be taking place, i.e. the one in which a feminist mindset may be permeating an organization or even a whole business sector. Under such a scenario, male workers will likely have only a few opportunities. Research limitations/implications The sample size of this study does not permit that the results be generalized. In addition, data were elicited from only a specific cohort of companies. Practical implications It was found no substantial evidence that these organizations are making strides toward at least mitigating the effects of their gender unbalance, although gender equality and, broadly speaking, diversity does not constitute a new management topic anymore. Originality/value Unlike other investigations, it encompasses a larger sample of companies, draws exclusively upon gender-based organizations and is grounded on multiple sources of information. Additionally, data revealed that gendered organizations may encompass different levels of salience.

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Transformative justice and restorative justice: Gender-based violence and alternative visions of justice in the United States

International Review of Victimology ◽

10.1177/0269758020970414 ◽

2020 ◽

pp. 026975802097041

Author(s):

Mimi E. Kim

Keyword(s):

United States ◽

Restorative Justice ◽

Interpersonal Violence ◽

Historical Analysis ◽

Mass Incarceration ◽

The United States ◽

Gender Based Violence ◽

Transformative Justice ◽

Legal Literature ◽

Gender Based

In the United States, the contemporary feminist movement against gender-based violence started in the early 1970s, just as ideologies and policies supporting mass criminalization launched what became a five-fold rise in U.S. rates of incarceration. Since the new millennium, people of color have taken the lead in re-envisioning fundamental notions of justice given the dramatic backdrop of mass incarceration and the recent upsurge in prison abolitionist possibilities. Central to this reformulation has been a social justice critique that recognizes the intersection of gender-based violence and other forms of interpersonal violence with the violence of the state, most concentrated within U.S. carceral institutions. While the U.S. roots of violence as well as resistance to this violence extend back to the earliest days of colonial occupation, the contemporary manifestation of the anti-violence struggle has taken on the labels of restorative justice and, more recently, transformative justice. This conceptual paper relies upon historical analysis of the contemporary anti-violence movement, secondary legal literature, and insider social movement knowledge to trace recent trends in the movement to redefine notions of justice in its application to gender-based violence, the contrasting trajectories of restorative justice and transformative justice, and the liberatory vision and practices of transformative justice.

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