PIETA

 Oleh: Pipiet Palestin Amurwani Sumber; djkn.kemenkeu.go.id Before talking more about gender equality, let us know what gender is. West and Zimmerman said that gender is not something we are born with, and not something we have, but something we do (1987) – and Butler added that it is something we perform (1990). We can say that gender is the result of nurture – as social and hence fluid or it is constructed by the social. It is different to sex that is given by biology. Sex is anatomical, endocrinal, and chromosomal. Gender equality is an equal condition between men and women in the right and the obligation. Still there is a lot of gender inequality happen in life sectors in Indonesia. For example, the people in some places in Indonesia think that a girl doesn’t need to have high level of education before she gets married. They believe that it will make her difficult to get husband. Of course, it doesn’t make sense. In Indonesia, gender equality actually began in 1908 promoted b