Status of Vocational Education and Training for Korean Middle-aged Career Interrupted Women in Korea
AUTHORS
Yun-Jeong Kim,Department of Health, Counseling and Welfare, Hanseo University, Professor, Republic of Korea
Soon-Hee Ryu,Seosan Healthy Family, Multicultural Family Support Center, Center Director, Republic of Korea
Sang-Jin Lee*,Chungcheongnam-doPublic Agency for Social Service, Team Manager, Republic of Korea
ABSTRACT
The purpose of this study was to understand the status of vocational education for career-breaking women aged between 40 and 64. Lee, Yang, Song, and Kim (2020) used the data, which was investigated for the "lifetime vocational education and training plan for employment links over middle-aged." Thus, this study used the secondary data from a web survey method using questionnaires and a self-subjective survey which were conducted simultaneously in February 2020. Among the data, 328 women aged 40 to 64 who had a job before but are now jobless and have the desire to find a job, were analyzed. According to the survey of career-interrupted women's participation in vocational education and training, only 21.6 percent of them have participated in vocational education and training. In terms of the number of vocational education participants over the past five years, 59.2% of the participants participated in the program, and 1.4% participated in the program four times. As for the purpose of participation in vocational education, 're-employment' was the highest reason noted at 46.5%, 'acquired certificates' was shown to be 21.1%, and 'improvement job skill’ was at 15.5%. The institutions that received vocational education and training were 25.4% of' ‘vocational education and training corporations', 23.9% of' ’public vocational training institutions', 18.3% of 'private academies', and 11.3% of' ‘women's workforce development centers' Second, the careers of women who participated in vocational education and training were often 'service/sales business'.
KEYWORDS
Career interrupted women, Vocational education and training, Job seeking skills, Basic job competence
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