Joeun Kim

KDI School of Public Policy and Management | KDI

Emerging research on antifeminism documents widespread antagonism among young men toward women and marriage. However, no quantitative study has explicitly investigated the connection between men’s antifeminist ideals and marital desire. Using a nationally representative sample of young Korean men ( n = 1,061), the author examines the latent variabl...

I focus on the association between contingent employment and the division of domestic labor within marriage. A voluminous literature has shown that women’s lower economic resources, relative to their spouse’s, decreases their bargaining power and increases their share of domestic labor within marriage. I examine the associations between women’s con...

This chapter attributes the recent rise in anti-family sentiments in South Korea to the “gender war,” a conflict between men and women over gender issues that formed and evolved online, and then permeated mainstream and public discourse. This study first documents the nature and trajectory of this “gender war” online and offline over the last 5 yea...

Scholars and policymakers contend that severe work-family constraints for women are a key contributor to lowest-low fertility in industrialized countries. Two separate areas of research have examined supports that could alleviate these constraints and potentially increase fertility: institutional support in the form of public policies and domestic...

Objective This study investigates the association between men's economic dependency during midlife and allostatic load, an indicator of chronic stress, and how this relationship varies with men's gender ideology. Background Women are primary breadwinners in almost a third of heterosexual couples in the United States. Emerging research finds that f...

Background: Hypertension is a strong factor for stroke and coronary disease, and it has been found that 1 in 4 young adults are experiencing pre-hypertension in the United States This study was designed to examine the role of parent-adolescent relationships in the risk of developing (pre)hypertension in young adulthood, and to explore potential med...