Ellen Toobin
Blog Post 4:
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/03/02/world/asia/02iht-women.html?ref=world
This article chronicles the experience of Korean women in politics in South Korea. Recently there has been an enormous influx of women in government jobs. The number of woman who pass the notoriously difficult Korean foreign service exam has risen from 3 to more than 55%. The article explains that though the influx of women in government is a positive change for Korea, it also reflects the perpetual glass ceiling for women in Korean business.
The article stresses that in Korea like in the United States there is still a long way to go for women to achieve equal representation in Government. The Korean Government none-the-less has begun to revise hundreds of laws that include gender bias, and women are slowly working their way up from managerial positions in government to upper level work.
This article relates to our readings about liberalism. Equality for citizens is in an inherent part of classical liberalism. If we are to believe that democracy breeds peace it follows that the more representative that democracy the more peaceful a country will be.
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