Men and Women in My Culture
Men and Women in
My Culture
Antonius Siwi Dharma Jati, SJ
In my culture, women are socially constructed under men in 3
matters. First of all, it is the different roles in the society. Men should be
the first priority, particularly when people want to choose their leader. Furthermore,
the social construction in my culture assumes that women have a lack of power, so people
in general prefer to choose men as leaders. Therefore, nowadays, it is very
rare to find women as leaders. According to Reuters News[1],
at this time, there are only 18 women leaders in this world. This number of
women leaders is less than men leaders. On the contrary, women usually just work
in safe professions such as secretaries, nurses,
housemaids, waitress and other similar jobs. Secondly, it is about the right to receive guests at
home. In my culture, women are prohibited to receive guests if there are
no men in the house. If there is a guest
who visits the house, there should be at least one man in the house. If there
is only a woman living alone or she is only living with other women, she cannot
receive her guest at home. In contrast, men are free to receive guests whether
their guests are men or women. Thirdly, it is about the inheritance from the parents. Women will get
only 40% of the inheritance from their parents. On the contrary, men will get
more than women. Men will get 60% of the inheritance from their parents. In addition, if a married couple has a son and a
daughter, 60% of their inheritance will be given to their son, and 40% of the
rest will be given to their daughter. Moreover, people in my culture have long assumed
that boys are more important than girls. That is why most people give more
inheritance to their son than to their daughter. In brief, based on those 3
reasons above, we can say that in my culture, women are always constructed under
men in terms of the roles in the society, the right to receive the guests and the
inheritance from the parents.
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