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3. Overcoming Cultural Constraints: Essential to Korean Women’s Leadership Success in Korea

Author : Heesoon Jun

Published in: Korean Women in Leadership

Publisher: Springer International Publishing

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Abstract

Chapter 3 examines the gender discrimination Korean women leaders currently face and addresses why minimal structural changes are insufficient to change ingrained beliefs regarding gender. Social psychology and cognitive neuroscience research findings are used to explain why ingrained and often unconscious beliefs are resistant to change. Dynamic relationships among systemic and internalized gender privilege and oppression are explored, as well as their unconscious interactions in perpetuating gender discrimination in the workplace. Paradigm shifts in thinking and learning to overcome cultural constraints to foster women’s leadership success in Korea are proposed.

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Title: Overcoming Cultural Constraints: Essential to Korean Women’s Leadership Success in Korea
Author: Heesoon Jun
Publisher: Springer International Publishing
Book: Korean Women in Leadership
Print ISBN: 978-3-319-64270-3

Electronic ISBN: 978-3-319-64271-0

Copyright Year: 2018
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-64271-0_3