Three general secretaries of regional Women Worker’s Associations Chairperson of Women’s Resources Development Center Chairperson of Working Women’s Academy Chairperson of KWWA Chairperson of Self-Help Center for Women in Poverty 3. Interview Analysis 1) Private Experience and Philosophy Ideas about the formation of the women worker’s movement When female activists think of the women I regret that we didn’t handle that situation worker’s movement, what do they think of? One properly at that time. activist, who was a founding member and has been a chairperson for nine years, defined the When they saw the difficulties that women’s workers movement as a“practice to women face such as family care, childbirth, child change not only the system for working women to care, etc., activists came to understand women’s solve their problems at work and in the needs as something that“needed its own field.” community and to gain self-esteem and identity as That is, it was different from organizing trade women workers, but also to help working women unions or improving workers’ rights. It was not a understand their condition.” problem of individual women workers, but an This understanding of the women independent issue that should be dealt with at the worker’s movement is the result of experiences in gender level. the movement. In the beginning, female activists did not have a clear idea of women’s issues. Most When I was in university, I was a member of the activists though women’s issues would be solved feminist club. The feminism I encountered then within the labor movement itself. was theoretical. It didn’t have much connection with my life. I experienced women’s issues after I When I first worked at a factory in 1983, I heard got married and had children. Women tend to that a young female worker in another team got easily lose contact with their friends and raped or something by a male manager. We acquaintances. For instance, if the husband started working in the factory for the labor moves to another place for a job, the wife usually movement and we didn’t know that kind of thing moves too, and nothing remains for her except her could happen. We didn’t know what to do about it. relatives. For this reason, a specialized