경찰 내 젠더 대표성에 대한 국제인권법적 해석 - 여경 비율과 여성차별철폐협약의 적용을 중심으로 - = Interpretation of International Human Rights Law on Gender Representation in Policing - Focusing on the Discussion of the Ratio of Female Police Officers and the Application of the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Wome

다국어 초록 (Multilingual Abstract)

The proportion of female police officers in the Korean police expanded from about 2% in 2000 to about 15% in 2023, reaching an average level worldwide. However, this number is still lower than that of other public institutions, so it is difficult to say that gender representation, which symbolizes women, which is half of the population, has been sufficiently secured. This paper examines the gender representation of Korean female police officers as a way to examine changes in the proportion within the police, and discusses the aspects of gender equality in the phenomenon in the light of the International Convention on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women in Human Rights Act. To this end, the researcher compares the ratio of female police officers in Korea and abroad and analyzes gender representation within the police. And in the light of the content of Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women, gender representation is discussed. As a result, it is argued that police personnel should be classified based on personal characteristics rather than gender on the premise of expanding the ratio of female police officers to at least to a level that secures gender representation within the police. In addition, since the researcher is wary of generalizing the competencies of either the male police or the female police to gender differences in accordance with the International Convention on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women, even the communication skills introduced as the merits of the female police should be understood as personal characteristics.
However, the principles of maternal protection of the female police emphasizes that the need for a female police officer to take care of her children, from pregnancy to childbirth to childcare, should be regarded as a human right that the state should value. Finally, this paper is meaningful in that by studying the background and reasons for expanding the proportion of female police to a level that sufficiently secures gender representation in light of the International Convention on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women, the quality improvement of security maintenance services could be maximized by securing gender equality.