Gender Inequality in Compensation for Accident of Female Farmer

사고 보상과정에서 나타난 여성농업인의 불평등

  • Lee, Jin-Young (Rural Resources Development Institute, Rural Development Administration) ;
  • Kim, Gyung-Mee (Rural Resources Development Institute, Rural Development Administration) ;
  • Choi, Yoon-Ji (Rural Resources Development Institute, Rural Development Administration)
  • 이진영 (농촌진흥청 농업과학기술원 농촌자원개발연구소) ;
  • 김경미 (농촌진흥청 농업과학기술원 농촌자원개발연구소) ;
  • 최윤지 (농촌진흥청 농업과학기술원 농촌자원개발연구소)
  • Published : 2006.12.31

Abstract

This study reported on the cases about gender inequality in agriculture. Generally women have experienced something in vague situation as unequal to men in rural and agriculture. Despite of some women's have been complaining about this problem, it is not easy why and how many times they have been suffering. In this report, to get the information of gender unequality in agricultural laws and policies, the data was gathered by two steps. The first step, 175 cases into nine types was collected from leaders of several women farmer's associations, and after that, 60 cases selected to be interviewed by a specialist panel. The second step, it was analyzed the interviewed 60 cases based on real conditions compared with laws of items of policies. Among the cases, it was analyzed 8 rural women's who had been experienced to receive the inappropriate compensation in an unexpected accidents. From these cases, it was drew up some suggestions as follows; to make a rule to certify of the identity of woman farmer, and to build in a monitoring system of gender equality in agriculture.

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