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2023 [Gender Inequality in Housework] Lee Hyun Ah Discussion Paper

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Is Gender Inequality in Housework Being Resolved in Korea?


LEE Hyun Ah [Professor, Korea National Open University]

As a space that involves our daily life activities, home is the basic unit where we provide for, take care of, educate, and protect our family members every day. Housework is conducted repeatedly every day to help family members continue their daily life. Someone is required to do the housework to maintain the daily life of the family members at home, the private space. We have sustained our daily life thanks to someone who has repetitively done the housework at home every day. The daily life of humanity has been possible through the hidden labor of ‘daily housework.’ Housework is important in that it enables us to retain our daily life while serving as a basis to realize a decent life as a human being.

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The ‘dailiness of housework’ indicating that the housework is conducted repeatedly every day and the ‘universality of care’ indicating that we are cared for by someone and care for someone during our life apply equally the same to both men and women. We can ensure the sustainability of our daily life and future generations, when both men and women share the dailiness of housework and universality of care and take the shared responsibility for housework and care.

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