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Siti Walidah, Gender Equality and Modernist Islamic Women's Movement in Indonesia: A Critical History

This study delves into Siti Walidah’s journey as a gender equality pioneer within the ‘Aisyiyah movement, utilizing four research methods: heuristic research for source collection, source criticism for source validation, interpretation employing sociological and anthropological approaches, and historiography for systematic reporting. Findings reveal that Walidah’s family and marriage to Ahmad Dahlan strongly influenced her commitment to gender equality. Dahlan played a significant role in forming views and experiences that gave birth to ideas and tangible actions in the gender equality movement. Walidah pioneered the gender equality movement by establishing places of education: launching the Sapa Tresna association (1914), ‘Aisyiyah (1917), Internaat (1919), Musholla ‘Aisyiyah (1922) which became tools for building gender equality by providing opportunities and programmes for women to obtain equal educational rights as men. She played a pioneering role in empowering women within ‘Aisyiyah, leading its congresses, and departed from religious values to advocate for gender equality through the ‘Aisyiyah organization formed in 1917, solidifying her legacy as Indonesia’s first gender equality advocate.

ПРОБЛЕМАТИКА ГЕНДЕРНОГО БАЛАНСУ В КОТНЕКСТІ УПРАВЛІННЯ ЕФЕКТИВНІСТЮ ЗАКЛАДІВ ВИЩОЇ ОСВІТИ

In the context of the social performance of higher education institutions, gender balance is an important aspect, because it ensures equality. The initial goal of gender parity in the management process of higher education institutions is equal access to the management decision-making process between men and women. The article examines the issue of gender balance as one of the aspects of the social performance of higher education institutions (HEI’s). In addition, the article analyzes the state of gender balance among PhD students of higher education, and determines the index of gender balance for some higher education institutions of Odesa. At the moment of writing this article, there is a greater number of men in managerial positions among technical specialties, and vice versa, in humanitarian specialties, a greater number of managerial positions are held by women. In general, among the studied higher education institutions, the average indicator of gender parity is equal, although the gender parity index is significantly lower than one in technical departments. It is important to note that when ensuring such gender parity, other qualities of a person should also be taken into account, first of all, his competence and ability to fulfill the requirements imposed on him by these duties. That is why the author of the article proposes to ensure this gender parity precisely by popularizing traditionally "male" specialties among women, and vice versa. Overcoming such gender stereotypes will allow building gender equality in the field of higher education. Based on the analyzed data, the implementation of gender equality with the use of "soft power" is proposed, and the case with the use of "hard power" is predicted. The author of the article believes that the policy of implementing gender equality among all participants in the educational process should be implemented as an aspect of the autonomy of higher education institutions. According to the author, this will be able to create a significant competitive advantage for the institution in the market of providing educational services. In addition, author emphasizes that the process of building a gender equality policy should be gradual, since this approach allows you to assess the performance of various measures and make adjustments to improve their implementation.

Membangun Kesetaraan Gender Dalam Kehidupan Keluarga Perspektif Hukum Islam

This paper aims to strengthen opinions or concepts about building gender equality in family life. This paper is a qualitative study of a number of data sources (works); books and articles that discuss building gender equality in the family. This research is included in the category of further research on the same object of study, namely about building gender equality in family life. In addition, there has not been any previous research that describes building gender equality in family life which is then analyzed using Islamic law. The results of the study indicate that building gender equality in family life in order to form a prosperous family is throughgender partnershipsin the family. Then, build gender equality throughgender partnershipin family life in line with Islamic law. This is because so as not to cause damage in the form of not carrying out family functions.

Women's Involvement in Local Politics? Realizing Reinforcement of Gender Equality in Sinjai Regency, Indonesia

The purpose of this research is related to the strategy of the local government to build gender equality in the political field in Sinjai Regency to determine the Strengthening of the Existence of Women in the Political Sector to Achieve Gender Equality in Sinjai Regency.. The type of this research is qualitative research. This research uses descriptive research. The results of this study are to strengthen the existence of the women in political view to achieve gender equality in Sinjai, the implementation of these policies through Government Regulation number 12 of 2013 concerning Gender Mainstreaming which becomes the foundation and encouragement to be more gender-responsive, and the capability in political already increasing, because there is no more gender discrimination in leadership because already depending on women's capacity and performance, and then the accessibility of the women to access politics has been given a lot of form from government and the legislative. However, patriarchal values become the dominant cultural barrier limiting women's participation in politics.

GENDER EQUALITY IN ISLAMIC FAMILY LAW: Breaking the Chain of Domestic Violence to Achieve Harmonious Family

This paper describes some efforts to build gender equality in Islamic law against domestic violence. Family is the smallest institution in society as a mirror of a nation. Nevertheless, family problems continue to occur, including domestic violence. Domestic violence is a classic problem in a family resulting in caring for family functions to realize harmonious family. Based on the data collected, the number of women victims of domestic violence is still high, due to gender relations with patriarchal culture. This situation is legitimized by the sacred text which is still considered gender bias, such as in Islamic family law. Therefore, Islamic family law reform is obviously needed by discussing the concept of sakīnah (harmonious) family with gender equality through formal legal approach, legal culture, uṣūl fiqh (philosophy of Islamic law), and al-maqāṣid al- syarī'ah (the purposes of Islamic Law) and universal Islamic values as raḥmah li al-‘ ā lam ī n (blessing for the universe) to establish harmonious family.

Women, work and industrial relations in Australia in 2018

This year's annual review of women, work and industrial relations marks an important milestone. Nearly 10 years have elapsed since the introduction of the Fair Work Act 2009, which enshrined important new rights for the progression of gender equality. It is also 10 years since the Journal of Industrial Relations commenced this annual review. In addition to focusing on developments affecting women and work in 2018, this review provides a broad summary of key events over the past decade. We explore trends in women's workforce participation, union membership, economic security and pay equity, as well as major changes pertaining to work–family policy settings, workplace sexual harassment, and family and domestic violence leave. We conclude that although policy and employment frameworks have created a foundation on which to build gender equality, policy development has been sporadic and the context for women in Australian workplaces remains far from equal.

Women entrepreneurship enticed family prosperity - an empirical evaluation of performance of microenterprises under Kudumbashree mission in Kerala, India

Kudumbashree, meaning the family's prosperity is one of the flagship programmes of the Government of Kerala, centred on woman empowerment has been successful in giving hope to millions of impoverished women and their families in Kerala. Kudumbashree considers microenterprises as a growth engine that triggers development process. Besides improving the standard of living of the families, women empowerment can go a long way in building gender equality and social acceptance of labour in the community. This study focuses on review of the production, marketing, asset management, profitability, government support and women empowerment issues faced by the microenterprise units under Kudumbashree. The study is based on primary data obtained from 279 samples (93 each from three districts) in Kerala, the 100% literate state of India, using factor analysis revealed seven principal components that accounted for variations in performances of microenterprise units under Kudumbashree mission in Kerala.

Women entrepreneurship enticed family prosperity - an empirical evaluation of performance of microenterprises under Kudumbashree mission in Kerala, India

Kudumbashree, meaning the family's prosperity is one of the flagship programmes of the Government of Kerala, centred on woman empowerment has been successful in giving hope to millions of impoverished women and their families in Kerala. Kudumbashree considers microenterprises as a growth engine that triggers development process. Besides improving the standard of living of the families, women empowerment can go a long way in building gender equality and social acceptance of labour in the community. This study focuses on review of the production, marketing, asset management, profitability, government support and women empowerment issues faced by the microenterprise units under Kudumbashree. The study is based on primary data obtained from 279 samples (93 each from three districts) in Kerala, the 100% literate state of India, using factor analysis revealed seven principal components that accounted for variations in performances of microenterprise units under Kudumbashree mission in Kerala.

Feminism Paradigm In Gender Equality Argument of Nasaruddin Umar

The idea of gender equality, that dominates contemporary men-women relation discourse, makes a number of Muslim thinkers trying to reinterpretation some of the religious doctrines that are considered as biased. At this point the scripture became the main target of the review, because of its position as a major source of religious doctrines. This effort has been done by Nasaruddin Umar through the book Argument Kesetaraan Gender Perspektif By using the hermeneutics and semantics methods, his study focused on the historical study of Arab society and the meaning of vocabulary in the Qur'an that are directly related to gender issues. Nasaruddin saw the primary mission of the Qur’an is actually a liberating womens from the Arab patriarchist and similarity to the relations between men and women. But, the structure of the language and culture of Arab societies have been trapped word of God. Its makes a misunderstood that Islam helped to perpetuate the culture. This paper attempts to prove the strong influence of feminism paradigm in the Nasaruddin’s thought, and that so impressed coercion meaning of vocabulary and verses of the Qur’an adapted to the paradigm. The imposition of meaning occurs on the distinction of the meaning of the word al-Rijal / rajul and al-dzakar. The first emphasis on the quality and culture, the second emphasis on the biological aspects. But unfortunately, Nasaruddin was inconsistent using the sense that it provides itself. In addition, this paper provides a critical assessment of his socio-historical approach to build gender equality argument. Here the author found the reckless of Nasaruddin in seeing the socio-historical context of Arab society before and during the revelation of al-Qur'an. This makes his analysis tend to amplify and redirect the reason feminism espoused.

Book Review: Engaging Men in Building Gender Equality

Book Review: Engaging Men in Building Gender Equality

Venturing Beyond Domestic Walls - An Enquiry into the Role of Kudumbashree (Family Prosperity) Mission in Translating Women Entrepreneurial Passions into Profitable Micro Enterprises

Kudumbashree, meaning the family's prosperity, is a flagship program of the Government of Kerala, centered on woman empowerment. Through the operation of micro enterprises, Kudumbashree cherishes the expectation that asset management ability of the poor women will increase along with their income, financial inclusion, and social empowerment as well as leadership skills. Women empowerment can go a long way in building gender equality and social acceptance of labor in the community. The study revealed that changes in production, marketing, asset management and profitability problems leads to changes in performance positively while government support and empowerment issues affect performances negatively.

PENDIDIKAN BERBASIS KESETARAAN GENDER: Studi Kebijakan Pemerintah dan Aplikasinya dalam Pendidikan

Abstract Gender equality-based education is education that accommodate gender differences. This study aims to reveal the gender sensitivity insocial and educational as well as identify government policies in building gender equ ality and its applications in formal education. This study is qualitative with an inventory of government policies in building gender equality, and then analyze it with the reality of education in Indonesia. The approach used in this study is referring to the normative approach to the study of government policies in enforcing gender equality and its applications in formal education. The research data was collected using the techniques of literary study (library research). Materials that have been acquired and processed is described and analyzed by using descriptive interpretative paradigm and gender analysis. Although many efforts have been taken by the government for the realization of gender equality, but in the education sector still show gender inequality. The indication can be seen from three aspects, they are not unequal participation in education for women, unequal educational material as well as the selection of majors unequal proportions of men and women. The phenomenon is not yet reflect the totality of gender equality education. Keywords:pendidikan, kesetaraan gender, kebijakan pemerintah

Are men getting more emotional? Critical sociological perspectives on men, masculinities and emotions

Sociological research, influenced by feminist and other critical perspectives, has noted how men’s emotional inexpressiveness was influenced, and supported, by patriarchal privilege. Such approaches have argued that ‘inexpression’ needs to be broken down in order to build gender equality and improve men’s own wellbeing. Emerging research has, however, challenged the argument that men are ‘emotionally inexpressive’ on two main premises: that, as a result of feminist critiques, many men now practise ‘softer’ or ‘more emotional’ forms of masculinity; second, that emotions always influence social action and so need to be better incorporated into sociological accounts of men’s behaviour. Yet these approaches entail some conceptual confusion as to what emotions are, how they link to social action and whether men’s emotions are inherently transformative for gender relations. This article first details how emotions and masculinity have been theorized in feminist-inspired approaches. It outlines recent work on emotions, men and masculinities before arguing for an understanding of emotions that engages with both physiologically grounded and postconstructionist debates. It finally suggests incorporating a material-discursive approach to men’s emotions, through feminist work on affect, which is attentive to the political dimensions of ‘increasing emotionality’ in order to contribute to a developing field of sociological research.

Building Family Security to End Child Marriage

Child-marriage is easily found in most area in Indonesia and is second highest in ASEAN countries after Cambodia. Complexity of child-marriage roots in cultural tradition triggered by religious interpretation. However such facts being worsen as affected by regulations that legalized child-marriage. The soaring of child-marriage provides picture of the weakness of women and young girls in the family and society within dominance patriarchy ideology. Considering such ideology, gender inequality causes women and young girls having minimum access and bargaining position in the decision-making process. When this happens the rights of young girls are difficult to fulfill as can be seen in the fact of high-reaching child-marriage. In Kabupaten Sumenep, East Java, for example, under-age marriage reached 42,5% in 2015. Such complexity needs simultaneous and comprehensive efforts from national level to the desa (village) level which involving related stakesholder in the society. In this paper, I will develop opportunities and strategic measures in counteract child-marriage through the integratization of regulation such as Undangundang no. 6/2014 on the Desa as an entrance to build gender equality, women empowerment and child-protection to campaign against child-marriage.

A Golden Lever for Politics:Feminist Emotionand Women's Agency

Pervasive feminism is a component located in emotionality—feminist emotion—and contains women's primary agency. Because affect and emotions are elusive, an interpretive conceptual tool is necessary and is key to making use of their potential for feminist politics aimed at women's empowerment and well‐being and to build gender equality. This essay builds on contemporary feminist theory and affect theory and draws from multidisciplinary research. It presents a new theoretical framework anchored in hermeneutics and phenomenology to pin down the affective component of women's multifaceted, intersectional emotional experiences of gender. A case study also illustrates how the theoretical premises around the concept offeminist emotionare compatible with and useful for feministpraxis.

Educación moral en la ética de la razón cordial para la emergencia de nuevas masculinidades. Los Men’s Studies en la agenda política feminista

The growing interest in studying masculinity from a gender perspective is a new challenge for feminism and a new space to build gender equality. For this reason, the feminist movement should establish moral commitment to promote new ethical masculinities. Indeed such masculinity models can contribute to achieve an egalitarian society. Hence, their promotion should be based on moral values which would allow gender prejudices to be banished. We believe that both the bases of feminist political theory and the ethica cordis of philosopher Adela Cortina, can contribute to the collective construction of new masculinities through citizens’ moral education.

Excellence and gender

Purpose– Discussing the Swiss case, the purpose of this paper is to examine how gender equality policies deal with the present requirements for scholars to be considered “excellent”. It aims to pinpoint the lines of tension or coherence between excellence, meritocracy and gender politics.Design/methodology/approach– In order to specify the norms of academic careers and their different renditions, the author draws on two studies (at local and national levels) to illustrate where the changes and resistances are taking place.Findings– The translations of a number of demands of feminist movements into the policies set up to favour equality between the sexes may combine to challenge the norms of academia as a gendered realm. Nevertheless, without strong pressure from feminists at local level and the conduct of research pursuing the enterprise of deconstructing norms, top-down policies may prove less “corrective” than affirmative action. This pressure is not only useful to build gender equality in science but also to broaden the spectrum of knowledge that can become a common good.Research limitations/implications– As neither the names nor the positions of the experts who select the candidates at national level are made public, we had to opt for other, less satisfactory means.Originality/value– The originality of the paper lies in the link made between the enhancements brought by Equalities policies and the changes they bring. It attempts to bring to light the extent to which gender equality policies conform to the neo-managerial order or challenge its norms to build a world that is more just.

Policy approaches to involving men and boys in achieving gender equality and health equity

Work with men has demonstrated signifi cant potential in contributing to building gender equality and improving the health of women and men. However, most work with men has tended to be local in scale and limited in scope. To be more widely effective – that is to transform the pervasive gender inequalities that characterize many societies globally – efforts to transform men’s behaviour need to be significantly scaled up. Policy processes and mechanisms are key elements in any effort to engage men and boys in achieving gender equality.

Structural Funds and Gender Equality: The Impact of Gender Mainstreaming in Western Scotland

The introduction of the Gender Equality Duty (GED) on 6 April 2007 represented the most significant change to sex equality legislation since the equal pay and anti-discrimination Acts of the 1970s. The GED is a form of legally enforceable gender mainstreaming that requires public authorities to build gender equality into all of their activities. Gender mainstreaming represents the latest approach in the search for equality. It is a holistic strategy that requires making equality considerations a central feature of policy-making. While gender mainstreaming may be new terrain for a number of policy makers, the experience of managing Structural Funds in Scotland provides a practical example of gender mainstreaming in action. On the positive side, there are examples of how projects from infrastructure to business development have integrated gender in all aspects of the policy and planning cycle and in service delivery. On the negative side, there still appears to be a lack of understanding of what gender mainstreaming is all about. Gender is seen as being about women and there is confusion between mainstreaming as the method, and the overall objective of achieving gender equality. The challenge for the GED is to underline the role of gender as a key variable in the success or failure of public policy interventions.