Bibliographic record
Abstract
The purpose of the study is to survey the current social status of Korean women pastors and find ways of mobilizing women resources: Professionalization. This study uses the survey and an open-ended questionnaire. The population of Korean women pastors (ordained and non-ordained) are estimated to be 4,000 (Annual Report on Korean Religion, 1996-1997). Fifty three women pastors (mainly non-ordained) were randomly selected. Percentile statistics was used for analysis. The result shows the social and cultural barriers that Korean women pastors are facing. Since the first Sunday school (Girl's Sunday School) in Korea has been founded by Mrs. Scranton in 1886, a great many girls and women were educated and became human resources for evangelism in the Korean church. They became so-called who served and out-reached mainly for women and greatly contributed to the unprecedented phenomenal growth of Korean Church. Despite the fact that women pastors constitute a main evangelical force for the Korean church, only 4 percent of Korean pastors are women in 6 major denominations (Korean Church Woman Association, 2004). Although Korean women pastors are equally educated as men pastors, they are limited by gender bound, non-professional areas without minimum financial guarantees. They have been diligent toilers, silent workers, and patient servers. They are working as care-givers, educators for the young and counselors mainly for women. Their contracts remain annually with senior pastors. Their salary usually reaches a quarter of a senior pastor's. Although women's resources have been indispensable human capital for the Korean churches, they have been under-utilized and undervalued because of the social and cultural barriers that Koreans are still facing. Although some denominations ordain women pastors, Korean women pastors remain to be fully mobilized for the Korean church community. Female church leaders are still invisible and are not recognized as valuable human resources in Korean churches. The tradition of professionalism could be traced back to the so-called Bible-Women who sold Bibles and learned the Bible at church school. They were active drivers of rapid church growth. Hence, present and future Korean women pastors must practice to be professionals in order to carry out their roles. Many women pastors answered that the most urgent task is to be professionalized in many areas. Three professionalized tasks were suggested: first, possessing human capital; second, forming strongly tied social networks; and third, possessing technological dexterity. in the 21st century, God opens new windows of opportunity for women pastors to improve their hidden capabilities and professionalize their core competences. If they could mobilize their hidden capabilities, they could be another engine for world church growth to expand God's Word as did early Korean ancestors of faith. How to adjust to the new era depends on the women themselves.
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How this classification was reachedexpand
Full frame distilled prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.
Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.002 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one teacher head, not a consensus.
How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".