여성 자립을 위한 현장 연구 Ⅰ - 도시 저소득층 여성을 중심으로 -

• 영문명: Action Research for Women's Self-Reliance I ; Centering around Urban Underprivileged Women in Seoul
• 발행기관: 이화여자대학교 한국여성연구원
• 저자명: 정세화(Chung Sei-Wha) 김경애(Kim Kyung-Ai) 허향(Huh Hyang) 이수자(Lee Soo-Ja)
• 간행물 정보: 『여성학논집』제4집, 199~271쪽, 전체 73쪽
• 주제분류: 사회과학 > 여성학
• 파일형태: PDF
• 발행일자: 1987.12.01

영문 초록

This study aims at making underprivileged women raise their problems and mobilizing them to solve their problems for themselves through an action research method. For this goal, researchers encouraged and stimulated the target women to develop their potentiality, so as to achieve their self-reliance for the past three and a half years (October, 1983~ March, 1987) given as a study period. The ultimate goal for this study is to find the way, especially for the self-help of urban poor women in Seoul. Chapter Ⅱ describes the content of activities implemented for the research. The activities can be divided into four stages. In the first stage, we, the researchers, selected Y-dong located nearby Ewha Womans University as our target community among slum areas in Seoul, and surveyed the present situation of the residents of the area. Next, we made efforts to form a rapport with the community women through health care service by a medical team consisted of medical doctors and students of Ewha. The second stage was that of brining up forward their problems and raising their consciousness through discussing themselves in workshops conducted by Korean Women's Institute. In these workshops, they agreed to what they urgently needed were a day-care center, a study room, medical service, and the chance to participate in income-generating activities for their living costs. During the period of the third stage, small groups of women in Y-dong for day-care center and health care were organized. Group members for day-care centere composed of mothers of children aged under 6 opened a day-care center in the area with a partial financial help from Korean Women's Institute. And those for health care organized medical service for residents in Y-dong, in which doctors of Ewha University Hospital and medical students of the University participated in this stage, the researchers investigated women's life history and their present conditions on income-generating activities to seek a way to increase their income. During the survey, we found they had been sacrificed for their family through their whole life. In their childhood, all of them had to give up their schooling for yielding priority to their brothers. Moreover, they had to be engaged in any sort of work to earn money for their family subsistence and educational costs for their brothers. After getting married, they faced the same situation and they passed through various kinds of jobs, among them homeworking to increase family income was the most popular. (The situation of women's homeworking will be further investigated in detail sometime in the near future, to seek suitable measures to make efforts to change subcontract structure for improving their economic condition.) In the fourth stage, we devoted to the consciousness-raising education emphasizing them a collective entity to mobilize more women to join the small-group-activity. In the Chapter Ⅲ, we discussed the findings derived from evaluation sessions on our activities during the past years, and mapped out some proposals for women's self-help. First, activities for day-care center encouraged women in Y-dong to mobilize because it was urgently needed for them. In the process of running the center by themselves, they became to get confidence in themselves. By doing this, the women's group had become stronger clay by day on the basis of a collective entity consciousness. Secondly, the small group members for health care had strengthened their solidarity through discussing their health problems and organizing health care service. Thirdly, educational programs for them were essential for their consciousness-raising, even though they could not have spare time for them because they were totally involved in their homeworking for increasing family income and their various housework. As a method of education, we concluded that for the half-illiterated women, education through such programs as games, role play, group dynamics

목차

Ⅰ. 서론

Ⅱ. 연구활동 내용

Ⅲ. 평가 및 제언

Ⅳ. 결어

Abstract