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Multilayered Institutionalized Gender Knowledge in Korea and Exploring Women’s Policy Knowledge Building

  • 아시아여성연구
  • 2024, 63(2), pp.73-114
  • DOI : 10.14431/jaw.2024.8.63.2.39
  • Publisher : Research Institute of Asian Women
  • Research Area : Interdisciplinary Studies > Gender Studies
  • Received : June 23, 2024
  • Accepted : August 21, 2024
  • Published : August 30, 2024

Baek, Mi Rok 1,  Kyounghee Kim 2

1전북여성가족재단
2중앙대학교

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ABSTRACT

This study investigates the characteristics of gender expert knowledge within the Korean bureaucratic system to advance gender mainstreaming and to assess its practical implications for fostering a gender equal society. In this study, a qualitative content analysis was conducted on gender training materials. This study identified three layers of gender expert knowledge in implementing a gender mainstreaming system. First, gender knowledge as policy expertise is a practical skill for the effective implementation of gender mainstreaming systems and has the character of positivist policy knowledge. Here, gender is translated into statistics or quantitative data, providing evidence and causal explanations consistent with universal policy logic. The second layer is performative gender knowledge, in which gender expertise emphasizes the roles and practices of public servants in gender equality outcomes. This has the potential to ameliorate gender inequalities by setting transformative goals and preventing the formalization of gender expertise to manifest as institutional improvements. The third layer is gender knowledge as feminist policy knowledge, which not only has a feminist nature, but is also effective in the policy sphere. An analysis of the knowledge transfer strategies revealed the processes of reframing and deframing. For example, in gender expertise, intersectionality is defined as diversity, and the term “women” is inclusive of the elderly, the disabled, and children. These strategies aim to increase the acceptance of gender expertise in mainstream policy spaces. In conclusion, the study proposes to recognize “feminist policy knowledge” as a category of policy analysis within the gender mainstreaming system in Korea and to expand it as a “social knowledge” applicable to bureaucracy and civil society. Furthermore, it suggests that knowledge transfer strategies must incorporate the three layers of knowledge in simultaneous, interlayered, and multilayered ways.

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