Indonesian people, especially Javanese, of course,
socio-cultural construction of the role of male
women tends to benefit men. Many values of gender
bias occur in a society that are not caused by
biological factors but the result of cultural
construction such as power relations. Power
relations to limit women's roles at home and outside
the home because in this way so that the opposite
sex can still control women.
This approach emphasizes that social, cultural
factors have placed women disadvantaged in the
labor market.Women work in households and men
earn a living as a form of subordination is a product
of socio-cultural construction. This construction is
entirely determined by social construction.
Inequality of male and female roles is one form of
oppression. Oppression has brought women to enjoy
poverty without resistance to free the shackles.
Qualitatively rural women have done much work
both in the domestic and public sectors,but women
are still marginalized due to gender bias policies.
Policies in agricultural development in Java in the
1970s had much impact on the shifting of labor from
the agricultural sector, Javanese women were the
group of workers most disadvantaged by
development in the agricultural sector. Some work
on agriculture originally loaded with female labor
must be cut down and forced women out to find
sources of income outside agriculture for the sake of
their household economics (Ann Stoler, 1982;
Pujiwati Sajogyo, 1984; Joan Hardjono, 1990;
Endang S. Soesilowati and Darwin, 1995). Limited
capital owned by women, limited education and
skills forced women to work at very low wages.
Women are increasingly having difficulty increasing
women's resources because the workload that must
be borne is more severe, namely completing the
main tasks in the household, helping to make a
living and carrying out activities that lack economic
value.
2.2 Independence of Poor Women
Independence known as autonomy in Greek
comes from the word autos means self and nemiin
means giving up or giving. Autonomy implies the
power to regulate itself, or the act of regulating itself
or determining and directing itself. Women who
have autonomy or independence means having
freedom without relying on other parties to be free to
move and make choices according to their needs.
According to the Big Dictionary of the Second
Edition of Indonesian Language autonomy is one of
the characteristics of human existence as a form of
recognition of one's independence. People are said to
have independence if someone has self-esteem,
independence and independence. Someone can
determine the will and convey ideas by the desired
goals without fear of threats or attacks from other
parties who intend to control him.
The division of labor that places women in
domestic work and men in public works raises issues
of injustice towards women. Women become
dependent on men because of domestic work that
spends even a woman's life without pay.
Dependence of women on men can be reduced by
placing women proportionally. Women's
independence is the right of women to argue that
they decide or determine the problems that exist in
the household. So the meaning is clear that women
are not just wingking co-operatives but must be
positioned as equal partners who have an equal
position in joy and sorrow. Thus women must be
invited to speak, discuss, discuss in all matters. Of
course, it must be done reciprocally and openly.
Independence of rural women includes self-
regulating daily household needs, arranging and
managing household wealth, determining work
choices outside the home both in agriculture, as well
as other production fields, businesses and services,
and trade and participating in community activities.
Independence is the ability to bring women as
humans who have the value of living alone in
society. Independence can be realized if there is
recognition of humanity for its humanity. These
changes can be made through the construction of
socio-cultural environments as well as those of
women. Independence is an important concept
because it can bring women to humans who have
their own lives in society. Independence or
autonomy is one of the characteristics of human
existence, as a form of recognition of one's
independence.
People are said to be independent if they have
self-esteem, independence and self-sufficiency and
have courage. Mandiri means being able to
determine one's own will and ideas and goals; can
realize all on their ability and not acute threats or
attacks from other people. Independence means
someone does not depend on others. However,
independence with the notion of being dependent on
others can cause confusion because women's
independence means women who are not dependent
on men. For example, the independence of women
as wives means that wives know and are involved in
every decision making in solving problems faced in
their households.
Women will achieve independence if women
work and do work that generates wages so that the
income earned can be decided for its use. Women
are said to be independent when acting as wives
related to education and care for children and
domestic work arranged with their husbands is not
only imposed on women as wives. Independent