비정규직 여성노동자의 사회권을 통해 본 한국의 젠더체제

This paper explores how to improve the social rights of female nonregular workers in Korea by reconsidering their social rights in the light of the relationship among the gender regime, labor market system, and the welfare state. The dominant form of employment of Korean female nonregular workers is temporary work characterized by instability, low wage, long-time work and exclusion from the state and occupational welfare. This phenomenon has been interpreted as an outcome influenced by the male breadwinner model of gender relation, which defines a woman primarily as a care-giver and as a worker secondarily. However, in Korea, male breadwinning in return for female care-giving is only the case for middle-class married women. Married nonregualr female workers of low-income household participate in paid-work to support themselves. This implies that the Korean gender regime is a stratified (or differentiated) male breadwinner model rather than a typical male breadwinner model, and the improvement of the social rights of female nonregular workers depends mainly on the reform of the dual labor market system.