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Byun Do-Yoon: Breaking the gender patterns
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Matheos Viktor Messakh
The Jakarta Post
Jakarta |
Fri, May 29 2009
| 09:58 am
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During her career spanning four decades, Korea’s Gender Equality Minister Byun Do-yoon has become clear on one thing: In the male-dominated societies across Asia, it is still hard for women to land jobs and hold on to them.
Breaking this pattern has been Byun Do-yoon’s primary mission since she took up the ministerial post in March 2008.
Byun said duri...
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