Sexist Books for Children

These books are for children, as young as three. How do they portray women and men in the workplace? Pretty conservatively. We visited Kyobo Bookstore in Gwanghwamun, Seoul, the biggest bookstore in the country. The portrayals of women in its top-selling “learning books” for children were disappointing, to say the least. Most frequently, women were seen in the home — whereas statistics say the majority of South Korean women of working age are actually working outside the home — or if they do se