Resilience of Women Leaders as Village Heads in Patriarchal Culture (Eco-feminist Analysis)

DOI

10.2991/icosop-17.2018.22How to use a DOI?

Keywords

Female leader, eco-feminist, and patriarchy

Abstract

This study analyzes the issues that arise from the facts of women as leaders. The fact does not necessarily dissolve the perception of most of the people in Indonesia leaders in government and in other public sectors are men. Data in the Batu Bara District civil servants of women more than men, plus there are 10 female village heads. There are interesting things in the phenomenon of women's leadership in Karang Baru Village, Talawi Sub-district, Batubara District, where from Head of Village a woman, also other village apparatus dominated by women. Analysis of this paper will uncover the reason for being a leader and selecting village officials under his leadership who are also women. How does the style of women as leaders take advantage of the femininity that has been considered weak into a force as a leader of women? The informants of this study were female and male villages heads, This research uses the qualitative method, data obtained through in-depth interview and focus group discussion. The results of the study found Stereotype femininity with the term fussy, meticulous and can perform various jobs (multi-tasking) to make the village head's mother's strength in running the village government.

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© 2018, the Authors. Published by Atlantis Press.

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This is an open access article distributed under the CC BY-NC license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).

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TY  - CONF
AU  - Harmona Daulay
AU  - T. Ilham Saladin
PY  - 2017/12
DA  - 2017/12
TI  - Resilience of Women Leaders as Village Heads in Patriarchal Culture (Eco-feminist Analysis)
BT  - Proceedings of the 2nd International Conference on Social and Political Development (ICOSOP 2017)
PB  - Atlantis Press
SP  - 144
EP  - 149
SN  - 2352-5398
UR  - https://doi.org/10.2991/icosop-17.2018.22
DO  - 10.2991/icosop-17.2018.22
ID  - Daulay2017/12
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