Gender Interpretive Socio-Cultural Review: Women’s Position in Indonesian Society
Journal Title: IOSR Journal of Humanities and Social Science - Year 2018, Vol 23, Issue 4
Abstract
Since 1998 women in Indonesia, within the context of their socio-cultural status, have believed that they are not politically empowered, they earn less income, they are victimized in domestic violence cases, and as far as they are concerned, they are less fortunate and not as lucky as the men are. The theoretical interpretive view of this paper proposes that the dissimilarities in conditions between men and women, from the perspective of gender, are shaped within the biological, cultural, and historical contexts, in which gender related attribute occurred on its own, whereas status is something that must be achieved. This paper shows that women in Indonesia have been for quite a long time actively engaged in various roles in the fields as diverse as the military, police, functional-educational fields, politics (both in the legislative and executive branches), in trade as well as in traditional market. Nowadays some women are also actively pursuing careers in the service sectors for instance by becoming GRAB or Gojek drivers, and a few of them are also involved in the production of television drama series (sinetron=sinema elektronik).
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Benny Ferdy Malonda
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