Boundary Agenda between Gender Equality and Human Resource: The Establishment of Policy for Women in Science and Technology in Korea

The policy for women in science and technology in Korea consists of the separate enactment, national planning, working bodies, and various supporting programs. The research analyses the formation of it into three phases: Rising concerns and floating solutions, in between gender and human resource, and settling down in science and technology policy. It points that women's issues in science and technology was on the boundary between gender equality and human resource development. Due to the boundary feature, the issue took the advantage of the two independent policy windows: The growing women's policy and the "avoidance of science and technology." As a result, the goals and rationale of women's policy in science and technology changed from gender equality to securing human resource.