HAMBATAN BEKERJA DAN BERAKTIVITAS PADA PEREMPUAN JAWA KELAS MENENGAH
Abstract: Six Javanese women
participated on this qualitative study in order to understand their obstacles
to engage on a job outside of their homes. They had college to university
educational level, middle to high class, engaged on a job before married. After
married till recently they were unemployed although they had trivial fertility
problems. There were various reasons for their unemployed status such as
husband had not given any permission to work, husband's jealous, wife’s primary
responsibility was to accomplish the unending domestic casks not to work,
providing a good service for husband and children, and wife’s low self-efficacy
Indeed, this unemployment was heartbreaking since wife’s high potentiality
could not be manifested because of husband's sex typed attitude. Unfortunately
this powerless self-perception was also agreed by those wives. Those wives were
more likely to be lazy or could not think visionary to train their skills,
because their family economy situation had not demanded them to work. Those
high class wives should learn more from the lower class Javanese wives who had
been able to be more egalitarian toward their husbands. It was because they had
to work, otherwise their children would be starved. Those rich wives should
feel embarrassment that their high educational level had been related to the
sex-typed attitude and more subordinate position.
Penulis: Arundati Shinta
Kode Jurnal: jppsikologikepribadiandd070009
