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KMID : 0352120140290010026
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Journal of Kyung Hee University
2014 Volume.29 No. 1 p.26 ~ p.36
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Status of Health and Health-related Risk Factors of Korean Women: From the Perspective of Korean Working Women
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Lim Sin-Ye
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Abstract
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The proportion of Korean women in total population is 50.0%. The enrollemtn rate for college or university of Korean women has been increasing and it has been higher than that of Korean men. In spite of this finding, the proportion of women in higher position in government and company is much lower because of glass ceiling. Furthermore, there is a big wage gap between male workers and female workers. Korean female workers are more employed in non-standard work, such as temporary and daily work, than male workers and the employment rate in non-standard work is increasing. Female workers suffer from double burden of work and domestic responsibilities. Because of this, the risk of musculoskeletal diseases is increasing. They deprived of sleeping hours, so the risk of generalized fatigue, self-rated poor health, depression, and suicidal ideation is increasing. Recently, the suicidal attempted rate in Korean female has been higher than that in Korean male. The risk of work-related musculoskeletal diseases in female workers is worse, because of repetition, force, and not suitable working conditions and equipments. In addition, most female workers are working in the sectors of service, sales, care giver, and hospital exposed to high demand of emotional labor. Because of these risk factors, female workers’ self-rated health is worse than that of male workers and the prevalence rates of depression and other psychological health problems show increasing trend. Besides, female workers exposed to adverse reproductive health risks for both workers themselves and their children, such as spontaneous abortion, delayed time to pregnancy, and congenital anomalies of their children. To prevent these health problems, it is necessary to obey the regulation for the protection of women’s health. Furthermore, policies for keeping work-life balance, reducing job stress by increase of job control and decrease of job demand, and decreasing gender inequality should be planned and implemented in Korean society.
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KEYWORD
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Women, Work-related musculosketal disease, Emotional labor, Reproductive health risk
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