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Gender and Public Policy

Women Role and Working Space : Women’s

Bergaining Position in Bureaucratic System

Tyka Rahman,

Institute Agama Islam Bukittinggi

In the global conversation, gender inequality in various aspects of life is still

experienced by women in formal and informal public spaces. This study wants to

describe how the accessibility of women for important positions in formal

institutions, especially those related to decision making. Researcher wants to

examine how strong the role of women in creating a social world. This study also

wants to explore women's bargaining position in the bureaucracy system. This

research question about ,will the broader access for women to upgrade their

social capital through education enable women to have an equal position with

men in the bureaucracy?

Equal access and space in the bureaucracy is not only related to the type of

work and position but also how influential women's voices are in making

decisions and determining policy directions in a formal institution. Women's role

is not just considered about he content of the ideas, or the educational

background of women, but also the relationship between women and men and

the overall bureaucratic system in formal institutions. In this study, researcher is

also interested seeing how the influence of the set of social values (religion,

ethnicity, etc.) possessed by women enable them to survive in the world of work.

This set of values influences the stock of knowledge possessed by women who

work in the bureaucratic system.

Role and socialization theory are used as analytical tools in this study

specifically for gender roles. According to Soedjito (1968), gender roles are usually

internalized through socialization. Socialization of gender roles can be through

family, school, and the media. These socialization actors greatly influence and

determine how gender roles are formed and interpreted. The gender role of the

researcher's standpoint in this paper is something that contextualized with space

and time, not something that is given. Rose (1974), “Women's Work: Women's

Knowledge” also emphasizes that individual knowledge and awareness is not

something abstract and far from experience or something that is given by certain

processes or separated from social reality. Individual knowledge comes from

working on, practice, and changing the world.

Keywords: Women's Bargaining Position, Women Role, Bureaucratic System

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