Gender Mainstreaming Strategy to Eliminate the Practice of Girl Marriage

• Main Authors: Emy Susanti, -, Siti Mas'udah, -
• Format: Book Section PeerReviewed
• Language: English; English; English
• Published: EAI 2019
• Subjects: H Social Sciences
• Online Access: https://repository.unair.ac.id/126590/1/28.%20Gender%20Mainstreaming.pdf; https://repository.unair.ac.id/126590/2/28.%20validasi%20gender%20mainstream.pdf; https://repository.unair.ac.id/126590/3/28.%20Turnitin%20Gender%20Mainstreaming%20Strategy.pdf; https://repository.unair.ac.id/126590/
• Institution: Universitas Airlangga

The practice of girl marriage in Indonesia has remained to this day, mainly in poor villages. This paper is intended to reveal how women who married at a young age have been victims and how the practice of girl marriage could be eliminated by using a gender mainstreaming strategy. This paper was based on research conducted in poor villages in the province of East Java, namely in Sampang Regency and Ponorogo Regency. This study is a feminist perspective research with the research subjects being women who were married at a young age, their parents, community leaders, formal leaders, and the leaders of women's organizations. The data collection techniques applied in the study were an in-depth interview technique with 20 informants and interviews using a questionnaire with 200 respondents. This study shows that the practice of early marriage is detrimental to women, since women are the victims. The study also found that implementing the gender mainstreaming strategy potentially could reduce the practice of girl marriage in poor communities.