![]() ![]() You find out how you look at others and how much you need others, thankfully I had a lot of support from my husband.’ Art connects people in the worldįor her PhD, she returned to Leiden. As a young academic, you’re never perfect, but you grow and become aware of your own abilities. You can publish something you would’ve liked to have read when you were studying yourself. ‘If you have a dream to do a PhD, I’d recommend it to anyone, because your dissertation is truly your brainchild after all. Still, she considers doing a PhD mainly as a beautiful thing. I’m constantly working on it.’ This was evident when she had a nasty fall in the Tokyo underground: ‘Then you’ve got to keep going and hobble on crutches with your interpreter from company to company, they saw me coming!' ‘Doing a PhD’s so much work and you have to manage your own work-life balance. Fortunately, she already had connections in the business world and ‘it definitely helps that you’re a bit bolder than when you’re fresh graduate.’Įarly next year, Yorum hopes to finish her dissertation. Companies weren’t eager to participate or left the interview selection to male managers,’ she explains. ![]() ‘It was difficult to find an starting point. ![]() Usually, it’s not a free choice at all, but a compromise.’ ‘Your dissertation is truly your own brain child’Īs an external PhD Candidate, Yorum’s dependent on external funding, but two grants allowed her to do fieldwork for over a year and a half. ![]() You must ask yourself what she saw in that one moment, why she chose something. ‘If women then don’t take advantage of long-term maternity leave or turn down a promotion, it’s easy to think “see, they don’t want to”, but that’s very stigmatising and above all polarising. For instance, young mothers who take a long time off are quickly labelled as being in the mommy track.’ In Japan, they’ve been paying attention to diversity policies for some time, but many work-life balance issues are still labelled as women’s issues. As a result, there are almost no female role models, only women doing what the men before them did. ‘Korean women leaders are pioneers but had to mould themselves into male managers. What do these women themselves think about their situation, how do they view their careers?’ Korean pioneers and Japanese ‘mommy tracks’ ‘I didn’t want to just write about people, I wanted to give them a voice. ‘There’s a lot written about it on macro level, but not at micro level – and numbers say nothing about women’s perceptions, that’s very much missing in the literature.’ So she interviewed 39 Japanese and 24 Korean women about their experiences in the labour market. Combined with her own experiences, it led to a PhD proposal on gender dimensions in career advancement. Policy and practice don’t always align with what women want,’ she says. There are many developments in both countries, but there’s also stagnation. ‘Diversity and inclusion in the workplace are still in their infancy in Japan and Korea. I eventually ended up in Japan and discovered first-hand how difficult it was as a woman, much less a foreign woman, to find suitable work in the business world.’ ‘There I dealt with policymakers and often visited companies. Yorum studied Korean Language and Culture, ‘before the bachelor-master system’, and after graduating went to work at the Dutch embassy in South Korea. ![]()
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