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Hired As Unmarried, Quit When Married

Author

Yi Ju-hui

Publisher

Daewon C.I. Inc.

Categories

Literature & Fiction

Audience

Adult

Overseas Licensing

Keywords

  • #Essay
  • #Self-Improvement
  • #Culture

Copyright Contact

Lee Hanbyeol

  • Publication Date

    2018-03-05
  • No. of pages

    264
  • ISBN

    9791133475100
  • Dimensions

    140 * 200
Overview

This is a book that will cheer and comfort all working women who are hired as single working women but work under the threat of having to quit.

Book Intro

The girls and boys studied in the same classroom but many years later, the boys are taking up higher positions, whereas the girls, who were just as smart if not smarter, are nowhere to be seen. Why have all the intelligent girls vanished? Is it because they are not as sociable? Or is it because they are not ambitious enough? Are they not interested in saving or accruing more wealth? The author, who has worked for a long time in the work force, tells stories of discrimination and injustice that women encounter outside of their home. She wishes she did not have to listen to these unacceptable statements, such as “Be like a woman,” “You’re a woman so you have to...,” or bear with the impossible expectation of “impeccably handling a full-time job and childcare.”

 

That is the reason the author wrote this book. Looking back on the days when she had to work under duress but nonetheless with dignity, she would like to speak share both positions of being a single working woman and a working mother, adding that it is her hope women would not live their lives too zealously for the simple reason of being a woman. 

 

She also talks of how work is not about adding a few more lines to your resume but rather, it is a path to making one’s life more complete. We live in a society where one must strive and struggle but surely there must be an ideal way of life when one searches for it. The author would like readers to benefit from the stories she tells—even if in the slightest amount. “My life as a working woman, hired as a single working woman, and then quitting as a mother would offer hope, knowledge, comfort, and inspiration to those who face closed doors and lack job opportunities.”

The book is a jewel of wisdom by someone who elucidates readers on what made women disappear from the work force, what difficulties lay in store for working mothers, how she tackled these issues as a newly hired employee, and as she got promoted to higher positions, how every day was a strife and battle for her—yet how in the midst of it all, she gained wisdom about life. 

About the Author

Yi Ju-hui



The author worked in the publicity and personnel department at Samsung for twenty-one years. She studied business management at Sookmyung Women’s University and received an MBA in business and management from Aalto University School of Business in Helsinki, Finland. She is the loving mother of two children and writes and lectures on “work” and “people” at workplaces. 

 

She is the author of The Lesson of Emotion at Work. 

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