Faktor-faktor yang Mempengaruhi Kesempatan Kerja Wanita dan Implikasinya terhadap Kesejahteraan Keluarga di Kabupaten Cirebon

Abstract

This research studied the factors that influenced the employment of married women and its implications towards the welfare of the family. The background of this study was that the economic structure in Cirebon had not created jobs for women workers for the district’s potential resources for development. The potential of women, which was relatively high had not been optimally utilized especially as we could look at the level of the unemployment rate of women in Cirebon which was very high (12.23%). In general, this study was directed to understand the influence of age, education, wages, husband incomes and industry to the employment opportunity of married women and its implications for the welfare of the family in Cirebon. This study was conducted in the district of Cirebon, West Java. The research activities were administered for one (1) year from the month of August 2014 to August 2015, that covered the works of designing, implementing, and reporting the results. Population and research sample were means of the women employment opportunities in 34 (thirty four) districts in Cirebon sub-district for 6 (six) years of time, from the period 2008 to 2013. The research method employed for the studies analysis of explanatory research using the statistical techniques simple linear regression analysis and multiple linear regression analysis. The results of this study indicated that the age, education, wages, husband incomes, and the industry affected both simultaneously and partially the employment of married women. The effect was significantly positive. Furthermore, employment of married women affected positively and significantly the welfare of the family. The findings proved that the employment of married women could be very helpful in the welfare and economic life of her family. The condition was congruent with Gary Becker's theory which mentioned that human as the agent of development and whatever action undertaken must be directed to the welfare of themselves. Implication of the research findings suggested the importance of the government policies stimulating the women to participate in the economic development within the regency areas. The empowerment of womwn as the actors of the district economic development conducted by the government clouid be in the forms of traning for their skills, provision of financial grants for running a business, and the inclusion of their well beings in various activities administered by the government so as they cloud be independent and become entrepreneurs.