Feminization of cultural work: the making of a gendered, precarious writing workforce in the South Korean broadcasting industry
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Bibliographic record
Abstract
Television writers’ work is considered women’s work in the context of the South Korean broadcasting industry in that almost nine out of ten of the more experienced writers in this industry are women. Using a feminist political economy approach, this article investigates how women became the overwhelming majority of television writers in South Korea during the 1980s and 1990s, and how this gendering process is connected with the precarization of labour in the South Korean broadcasting industry. The article describes how, by the end of the 20th century, the South Korean broadcasting companies reorganized and expanded a writing workforce that formerly wrote scripts for fiction programs into a gendered, precarious workforce that performed diverse duties across genres. This research further develops the concept of feminization of labour for understanding the precariousness workers have experienced and contributes to our understanding of the intersection of gender and labour issues in cultural industries.
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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 | 0.001 | 0.002 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| 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 it