Gender Bias in the Workplace: Should Women be Marginalized in Engineering Job?

2nd International Conference on Innovation in Engineering and Vocational Education

工业技术;教育

Kurniawan, Y.^1 ; Nurhaeni, I.D.A.^2 ; Mugijatna^1 ; Habsari, S.K.^1

English Study Program, Faculty of Cultural Sciences, Universitas Sebelas Maret, Jl. Ir. Sutami 36A, Surakarta

57126, Indonesia^1

Public Administration Study Program, Faculty of Social and Political Sciences, Universitas Sebelas Maret, Jl. Ir. Sutami 36A, Surakarta

57126, Indonesia^2

关键词: Career development;    Female entrepreneurs;    Gender bias;    Gender equality;    Higher education;    Local government;    Marginalization;    Vocational schools;   

Others  :  https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/1757-899X/306/1/012132/pdf
DOI  :  10.1088/1757-899X/306/1/012132

来源: IOP

【 摘 要 】

Research observing women marginalization in the workplace viewed from the endusers have not been widely conducted. This article discusses about gender bias in the workplace from the perspective of the end-users of vocational higher education in terms of first, the companies' policies in the salary payment and second the availability of companies' policies in fulfilling the gender needs for male and female employees graduating from vocational schools. The research employing gender analysis was conducted in the Ex-Residency of Surakarta, Central Java Indonesia. The data were collected through documentation studies. The result shows that both male and female entrepreneurs have gender-biased view of women's and men's positions within the companies. Consequently, women's salary tends to be lower than that of men for the same job and the companies were still not responsive to the different needs of women and men. Accordingly, local government should supervise the companies to implement gender mainstreaming in the workplace, especially in the employees' career development and give rewards to companies implementing gender equality and otherwise give punishment to companies which have marginalized women in the workplace.