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- Title
Female Street Vendors in Bandung City.
- Authors
Hermawati, Rina; Herawati, Erna; Paskarina, Caroline; Rejito, Juli
- Abstract
This study discusses gender issues in street vending. It particularly examines demographic characteristics of street vendors based on gender, gender-based tasks distribution in street vending as well as opinions toward street vending activities based on gender. This study applied mixed-method. The quantitative method using survey was applied to explore socio-demographic characteristics of street vendors. The qualitative method was applied to explore and describe street vendor's opinions toward street vending as livelihood, their preference to commodities based on gender, and gender-based tasks distribution in vending activities. Findings of this study showed that there is no differences between male and female street vendors in terms of socio-demographic characteristics, as both of them are involved in vending activities and they both considered it as potential source of livelihood. While gender-based differences were found in the choices of commodities and tasks distribution. Women prefer to commodities that are close to their feminine roles such as culinary and fashion rather than other commodities. Furthermore, women are also more involved in customer service and financial management than men. Women do these tasks because it is close to their feminine roles in the domestic sphere, and they are also more skillful in this task than men/their husband.
- Subjects
BANDUNG (Indonesia); STREET vendors; GENDER differences (Sociology); CUSTOMER service management; GENDER; DEMOGRAPHIC characteristics
- Publication
International Journal of Interdisciplinary Social & Community Studies, 2021, Vol 16, Issue 2, p13
- ISSN
2324-7576
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.18848/2324-7576/CGP/v16i02/13-25