Factors That Influence Married Women’s Decision at Rokan River Coast to Work

Abstract

The extreme economic pressure on coastal communities encourages the exploitation of children and women. The poor's poverty status results in the establishment of intergenerational inheritance of poverty. Women play a crucial role in developing the family economy, particularly in rural and coastal areas. Thus, the goal of this study was to learn more about the factors that drive married women to work. The approach employed in this study was a logistic regression model. If a married woman decides to work, the dependent variable assumes Y=1 and Y=0 if she decides not to work. The variables of education level and husband's income influence women's decision to work, however age, the number of children under five owned, and the number of dependents did not affect married women's decision to work. The variables education level and husband's income have odds ratio values of 2.102 and 0.937, respectively, indicating that increasing the education level by one level increases the chances of women working by 2.102 times, and increasing the husband's income by IDR 100,000 increases the chances of the woman deciding to work by 0.937 times.