Feminism insists on the importance of the women’s role in the society and tries to liberate women from irrationally discriminations. Feminists argue that women have many roles as mothers, wives, and workers (Zinn 70). Women in the countries, which is developing the ideology of feminism, sometimes struggle because of the double burden, which is the heavy work as a worker and wife/mother. In North Korea, women also have rights as same as American women and both America women’s and North Korean women’s roles in a society are similar; however, American people still have a conventional wisdom that North Korea does not have the ideology of feminism. Even though Americans think that North Korea is not feminist country, it can be clearly seen that
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That is why Americans tend to have a conventional wisdom such as North Korea is not a feminist country. However, North Korea has the own culture and they have their own ideology of feminism thorough the periods. The main women’s role in North Korea is the role as a wife/mother because only women can be a wife/mother. In the house, women have a lot of things to do as a wife and mother. Their …show more content…
After finishing the housework, they prepare for the school and take morning lecture and afternoon lecture for four hours each. Then, they back to the house and do the housework again. In the 1945-1950, people in North Korea were participated in the collectives, so women also have to attend the meeting of the collective after finish doing the housework. Their long day does not finish until 11:00 pm (S. Kim 129). Though this book, it is clear that women have to do so many things in a day and they do not have free time. This is the reason why women face to the double burden. Double burden is the situation for women that women work both inside the house for their family and outside the house for earning money. Not only they do not have the free time, but also they do not earn so much money. Housework is unpaid job, but it sometimes is harder than working outside. If women can earn money by working outside, the amount of their salary is cheap even though they do same work as men. This situation looks like that women have two different burdens inside of the house and outside of the house, so it is called double burden. Many countries, which have an ideology of the
That is why Americans tend to have a conventional wisdom such as North Korea is not a feminist country. However, North Korea has the own culture and they have their own ideology of feminism thorough the periods. The main women’s role in North Korea is the role as a wife/mother because only women can be a wife/mother. In the house, women have a lot of things to do as a wife and mother. Their …show more content…
After finishing the housework, they prepare for the school and take morning lecture and afternoon lecture for four hours each. Then, they back to the house and do the housework again. In the 1945-1950, people in North Korea were participated in the collectives, so women also have to attend the meeting of the collective after finish doing the housework. Their long day does not finish until 11:00 pm (S. Kim 129). Though this book, it is clear that women have to do so many things in a day and they do not have free time. This is the reason why women face to the double burden. Double burden is the situation for women that women work both inside the house for their family and outside the house for earning money. Not only they do not have the free time, but also they do not earn so much money. Housework is unpaid job, but it sometimes is harder than working outside. If women can earn money by working outside, the amount of their salary is cheap even though they do same work as men. This situation looks like that women have two different burdens inside of the house and outside of the house, so it is called double burden. Many countries, which have an ideology of the