PENGARUSUTAMAAN GENDER DALAM PENANGGULANGAN KEMISKINAN

Abstract

Poverty is a crucial problem for every nation that not only affects to the failure of fulfilling the basic rights of people to live in dignity but also reinforce unjust practices. One of the unjust forms in poverty is gender. Social burden in each poverty dimension including economic, social, cultural, and political structural dimensions is borne disproportionately by men and women. Women groups bear the burden of the social impact of poverty much higher than men. This condition is further exacerbated by the initiation of intervention in order to reduce the obstacles of poverty which is more projected on a particular group. As a social construction, the difference in gender has been proved by the contribution to social injustice not only for women but also for men. This gender difference becomes a source of injustice for men and women in their families, society, and state. In advance stage, this may justify gender bias in the systems of distributing authority, division of labor, ownership, and distribution resource. Therefore, the changing gender construction is an urgent need. This context becomes the intersection between poverty and gender inequality as a perspective to analyze national problem. The program which is designed to reduce poverty is not only oriented to overcome the obstacles of poverty in its various dimensions, but also to transform gender construction which can represent equality and justice