Economic development and women's status in Korea

With rapid economic development and the advent of the women’s movement, the changing status of women received much attention around the world. The status of women has been defined as women’s access to public resources that are open to everyone (Ward, 1984). The status of women, in this sense, reflects the level of social justice which plays a critical role in distributing these resources to each gender in a society. Justice is equality for equals. Women’s inferior status means injustice. Injustice, here, is the unequal treatment of the members of the two genders.