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The burden of double roles: Korean wives in the USA
Ethnic and racial studies • 11 (2) • Published In 1988 • Pages: 151-167
By: Kim, Kwang Chung, Hurh, Won Moo.
AbstractBrief abstract written by HRAF anthropologists who have done the subject indexing for the document
This is a discussion and analysis of the family and employment experiences of Korean immigrant wives in the Los Angeles area of California with a comparison made to similar experiences of their married White and Black women. The authors describe the dramatic new role that immigrant wives are forced to assume in the United States as they seek employment in the work place while still maintaining as much as possible the traditional Korean family ideology in regard to women's roles in the household. This document also provides information on the various jobs and duties performed by both Korean wives and their husbands in the household.
- SubjectsDocument-level OCM identifiers given by the anthropology subject indexers at HRAF
- Division of labor by gender
- Labor supply and employment
- Household
- cultureCulture name from the Outline of World Cultures (OWC)
- Korean Americans
- HRAF PubDateThe date HRAF published the document
- 1997
- RegionThe area the document pertains to
- North America
- Sub RegionThe more specific area the document pertains to, which is located within the Region
- Regional, Ethnic and Diaspora Cultures
- Document TypeMay include journal articles, essays, collections of essays, monographs, or chapters/parts of monographs
- article
- Evaluation
- Creator TypeThe type of person writing the document, e.g. Ethnographer, Missionary, Archaeologist, Folklorist, Linguist, Indigenous Person, and so on.
- Ethnologist
- Document Rating A ranking done by HRAF anthropologists based on the strength of the source material on a scale of 1 to 5, as follows: 1 - poor; 2 - fair; 3 - good, useful data, but not uniformly excellent; 4 - excellent secondary data; 5 - excellent primary data.
- 5: Excellent Primary Data
- AnalystThe HRAF anthropologist who subject indexed the document and prepared other materials for the eHRAF culture/tradition collection
- John Beierle ; 1995
- Field DateThe date the researcher conducted the fieldwork or archival research that produced the document
- 1979
- Coverage DateThe date or dates that the information in the document pertains to
- 1979
- Coverage PlaceLocation of the research culture or tradition (often a smaller unit such as a band, community, or archaeological site)
- Los Angeles, California, United States
- NotesAdditional notes
- Kwang Chung Kim and Won Moo Hurh Western Illinois University
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 165-167)
- LCCNLibrary of Congress Control Number
- 79641700
- LCSHLibrary of Congress Subject Headings
- Korean Americans