Many of the codified differences between men and women in Korea were introduced during the Chosun Dynasty, and women had fewer rights as a result of the transition into this new dynasty than they did during the previous dynasty.
1. How has this gender discrimination from the Chosun Dynasty affected Korean society today?
2. What kinds of restrictions or distinctions did this new way of thinking mark toward women during the Chosun Dynasty?
3. How were these Neo-Confucian principles applied to women's everyday lives?
4. Were there opportunities for women to enjoy some kinds of freedom during the Chosun period?
5. There was an abolition on the legal restriction for women to remarry. But what sort of other work is being done today to rectify some of the discrimination the Chosun period introduced?
