ScholarWorks@숙명여자대학교

초록

The arts and cultural sector is one of where women workers occupy a significant part of the labor market. Statistical data on dominance of women in professional artist education and high percentage of women working in this field have the effect of misleading people to think that it is a relatively well achieved field in gender eqyality. Labor in the arts sector is peculiar in that it is based on independent artist’s creative process or a small sized artistic production and free-lancing exercise. All of theses characteristic do not well conform with the modern-industrial definition of labor. Since most of Korean gender eaquity policy, especially the work-family balance policy. Not only that the work-family balance policy is grounded on the patriarchal premise but also assume that labor and care taking (care work) is mutually exclusively seperable. It is also the result of feminizing artists and the arts managing jobs for women with patriarchal paradigm. This paper interviews twenty one artists and arts managers to descibe the situation of gendered situation. Women artists are expected to acknowledge their job as a ‘caring mother’ in their jobs as in a patriarchal family. This kind of patriarchally feminized situation makes women workers more vulnerable to sexual harassment. Paradoxially, ‘caring mother’ role of real life is expilictly denided in that even legitimate exercises of child-care policy are denounced in the work place. Evidences and findings of this study are expected to reframe the paradigm of gender equity policy for women artists and arts managers in the sphere of labor equity and care-taking.

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