Gender Gap Analysis in Economic, Educational, Health, and Political Inequality in Indonesia

Abstract

Gender equality is one of the sustainable development agendas in the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) program, which was agreed upon by member countries of the United Nations (UN) in 2015, as a continuation of the previous program, the MDGs (Millennium Development Goals). Gender equality is an important issue considering that various national development efforts have in fact not provided equal benefits for women and men. For this reason, a serious response from the government is needed to create gender equality in order to achieve equal access between men and women in making decisions, involvement in various aspects of life both in the public and domestic spheres. Therefore, this study is present to see how a gender gap portrait occurs in Indonesia, especially in economic, educational, health, and political inequality. This study uses secondary data obtained from the Ministry of Women's Empowerment and Child Protection, and the Central Statistics Agency of Indonesia. While the method used in this study uses the trend analysis method over the IPG / IDG index (Gender Development Index / Gender Empowerment Index) in 2010 -2017, with economics, educational, health and political indicators using Ms. Excel 2013. The results of the study show that economic and political activities in Indonesia are far from gender equality, but in the fields of health and education, gender equality is at a good level.

Keywords: Gender Gap, Economic Inequality, Education, Health, Politics