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- Title
GENDER GLASS CEILING IN INDONESIA: Manifestation, Roots and Theological Breakthrough.
- Authors
Dzuhayatin, Siti Ruhaini
- Abstract
The Struggle for achieving gender equality has been undertaken in the international and national levels through the commitment of the United Nation (UN) on 30% women quota in politics and public positions. In reality, women are far lag behind due to the so-called ‘gender glass ceiling, a metaphor of ‘invisible barriers refer to ‘glass’ through which women can see higher positions but cannot reach them which is insinuated with ‘ceiling’. The root-causes are deeply rooted in cultural values and social practices whereby patriarchy and religion are dialectically amalgamated. Unless there is a theological breakthrough to a women-friendly interpretations, glass ceiling is unbreakable. This paper aims at examining the extend to which Islamic sholars, especially women in Islamic higher education in Indonesia, contribute to dismatling patriachal biases from religious traditions upholding the glassceiling. Before observing the initiatives taken to break the glass ceiling, the paper discusses the phenomenon of manifestation of the existence of the gender glass ceiling and the roots of why the ceiling has been so far upheld. The study reveals that there is a positive correlation between the rising theological discourses voiced by women religious scholars and the vertical mobility of women in public positions as the pathway by then the gender glass ceiling is broken.
- Subjects
INDONESIA; GLASS ceiling (Employment discrimination); MUSLIM women; CEILINGS; WOMEN in higher education; WOMEN scholars; GLASS; GENDER
- Publication
Al-Jami'ah: Journal of Islamic Studies, 2020, Vol 28, Issue 1, p209
- ISSN
0126-012X
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.14421/ajis.2020.581.209-240