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한국사회에서 여성 고학력 전문직 종사자의 비율이 지속적으로 증가하고 있으나, 노동시장에서의 성차별 완화 속도는 느려서 여성들이 경험하는 애로사항이 많다. 이 연구에서는 전문직 여성들을 심층면접 함으로써 전문직 여성들의 노동경험에 있어서의 특수성과 복합성을 상세하게 연구하는 것이 주목적이다. 경험조사 결과 전문직 여성들은 강한 직업의식을 지니고 있으며, 일에 대한 정체성이나 자아성취 욕구가 매우 강한 것으로 나타났다. 하지만 자신이 하는 일의 단순반복성이나 자율성 결핍 부분은 일에 대한 자긍심을 저하시키는 원인이기도 했다. 전문직 여성들은 끊임없이 일을 통해서 자아를 발전시키기를 원하며, 업무에 대해서는 제대로 된 평가를 받기를 희망하고 있다. 하지만 전문직 여성의 수가 적은 조직사회에서 소수 여성들이 경험하는 어려움은 더 큰것으로 나타났다. 고학력 전문직 여성들이 경험하는 딜레마는 전통적인 ‘일과 가정의 양립 요인’보다는 ‘업무관련 주관적 평가와 조직에서의 평가 간 괴리 요인’에 더 강하게 기인하고 있음을 확인할 수 있었다.

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Even though the proportion of the highly-educated women with professional jobs has been increased rapidly in Korea, gender discrimination at the labor market has not decreased at the same speed. This study aims to figure out the specificity and complexity of the labor experiences of Korean professio...

Even though the proportion of the highly-educated women with professional jobs has been increased rapidly in Korea, gender discrimination at the labor market has not decreased at the same speed. This study aims to figure out the specificity and complexity of the labor experiences of Korean professional women by conducting in-depth interviews. The results of the research demonstrated that professional women had strong Job-consciousness, job identity, and desire for self-achievement. Despite the fact that some professional jobs lack autonomy and require simplicity or repeated routine process, most professional women want to continue their work until the time of retirement. The interviewees emphasized that the works they are doing are very significant because the work career is now a part of them. It is the place they want to keep, which can be named as ‘here to stay’. Women want to be evaluated based on their efforts, capacity, and capability. However, the fact that the number of professional women is small resulted in many facets as ‘token professionalism’. By doing in-depth interviews, I could find that the source of dilemma for Korean professional women is moving from ‘combining work and family’ to ‘discrepancy between subjective evaluation of own work by herself and evaluation of her work by patriarchal organizations and society in general’.

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