Let her lead: acknowledging women leadership in the time of pandemic

Political leadership is usually understood as an arena dominated by men. Despite various campaigns across the globe for women empowerment, patriarchy is still the dominant trend in our society. There are still a huge number of people who cannot admit the fact that women can lead. This study argues that women leadership must be acknowledged. In so doing, this study is composed of three parts. The first part discusses politics of the sexes. The second part presents how various women world leaders do an excellent job in their country’s pandemic response. Finally, the third part reflects on how the world should acknowledge that leadership chooses no gender and that women, just like men, are also capable to lead excellently.

Ideologías empresariales y postfeminismo: Un diálogo interdisciplinar

Resumen: Este texto es una respuesta abierta a las apreciaciones planteadas por las profesoras María Ávila Bravo-Villasante y Lydia de Tienda Palop, y los profesores Carlos Jesús Fernández Rodríguez y David Muñoz Rodríguez a la obra Mujeres y discursos gerenciales. Hacia la autogestión feminista (Medina-Vicent 2020). A lo largo de las presentes páginas se busca articular un diálogo entre miradas procedentes de diferentes disciplinas (filosofía, sociología y teoría feminista centralmente) que contribuya a enriquecer la reflexión elaborada en dicha obra y abrir nuevos interrogantes sobre la misma. A su vez, dicho diálogo permitirá seguir ampliando el campo de los estudios del management desde la perspectiva feminista. Abstract: This is an open response to the comments of professors María Ávila Bravo-Villasante, Lydia de Tienda Palop, Carlos Jesús Fernández Rodríguez, and David Muñoz Rodríguez to the book Mujeres y discursos gerenciales. Hacia la autogestión feminista (Medina-Vicent 2020). The aim is to articulate a dialogue among views from different disciplines (centrally philosophy, sociology and feminist theory) that can contribute to enrich the reflection elaborated in the book and to open new questions about it, with the hope that this dialogue will help to expand the field of management studies from a feminist perspective. Palabras clave: postfeminismo, mujeres, liderazgo, gestión. Keywords: postfeminism, women, leadership, management.

Women Leadership and Its Association to Individual Characteristics, Social Support, and Diversity of Work Environment

This research was conducted to see the association of women leadership and individual characteristic, social support, and the diversity of working environment on women leaders. It was conducted on one of the largest textiles listed company in Indonesia with a market capitalization of more than six trillion Rupiah. This type of research is quantitative associative explanation. Purposive sampling method was used to obtain a popu-lation that fits in the criteria of a leader who have position as supervisor above to be the respondents. 100 female leaders who have been working more than a year in the company were qualified as respon-dents. Questionnaires were used with closed and opened questions. In order to analyzed the association between variables, the data was analyzed by Chi-Square analysis using SPSS. The respondents were 100 women leaders of a listed textile manufacturing company in Indonesia. The result showed that women leaders, who had high leadership capabilities due to the individual characteristic fit as a leader. They received social supports, especially from their spouses. Moreover, high diversity of working environment helped their networking. There were two kinds of individual characteristic (age and marital status) had no associative with women leadership.

Citra Perempuan dalam Cerita Rakyat Putri Kemang: Kajian Kritik Sastra Feminis

The Image of Women in The Folklore of Putri Kemang: Feminist Literary Criticism Studies ABSTRAKCerita rakyat Putri Kemang merupakan cerita rakyat yang menggambarkan perjuangan seorang putri untuk dirinya dan dalam memerintah kerajaannya. Penelitian ini bertujuan untuk mendeskripsikan teks-teks yang membicarakan tentang citra perempuan dalam cerita rakyat Putri Kemang dengan menggunakan pendekatan kritik sastra feminis. Sumber data penelitian adalah cerita rakyat Putri Kemang. Teknik pengumpulan data dilakukan dengan teknik pembacaan dan pencatatan. Teknik analisis data yang digunakan adalah deskriptif kualitatif dengan referensi keilmuwan kritik sastra feminis. Hasil penelitian menunjukkan bahwa citra perempuan yang terdapat dalam cerita rakyat Putri Kemang, yaitu: 1) persamaan pendidikan; 2) kemandirian perempuan; 3) kemampuan membuat keputusan; 4) kebebasan memilih pasangan; dan 5) kepemimpinan perempuan. Selain itu, didapatkan hasil penelitian yang menunjukkan bahwa citra perempuan dalam cerita rakyat Putri Kemang senada dengan pandangan kritik sastra feminis yang memiliki tujuan diperolehnya perlakuan yang lebih baik bagi perempuan, ditingkatkannya kedudukan dan peranan perempuan untuk membentuk masyarakat yang lebih adil dan setara dengan laki-laki.Kata kunci: citra perempuan, cerita rakyat, Putri Kemang, kritik, sastra feminisABSTRACTThe folklore of Putri Kemang is a folklore which describes the struggle of a princess for herself and govern her kingdom. This study aims to describe the texts in discussing the image of women in the folklore of Putri Kemang by using the feminist literary criticism approach. The data of the research is folklore of Putri Kemang. The data are collected through reading and noting. The data are analised by using the qualitative descriptive technique with a reference feminist literary criticism. The results of the research show that image of women in folklore of Putri Kemang are: 1) equality of education; 2) independence of women; 3) decision-making ability; 4) freedom to choose a partner; and 5) women leadership. In addition, the results of study indicates that the image of women found in the folklore of Putri Kemang was in line with the views of feminist literary criticism which aimed at obtaining better treatment for women, increasing the position and role of women to build fair society and equal to the men.Keyword: Women image, folklore, Kemang Princess, criticism, feminist literary

Women Leadership from the Perspective of Hamka

The paper investigates Hamka’s viewpoints concerning issues of womens’ leadership and its legitimacy in political and social sphere. The research problem is to address Hamka’s legal opinion on the legitimacy of women leadership. In this regard it critically evaluates his religious and juristic views concerning the issues and comparing this with diverse opinions of Muslim scholars from various schools of thought that legitimize or denied womans’ right in assuming any leadership role. The study is based on descriptive, analytical and comparative method. It analyzed the arguments and standpoints of Hamka regarding the issue and comparing these with certain arguments brought forth in the modern and classical texts of Islam that either justified or refuted such claim. The study concluded that Hamka explicitly endeavors to reformulate and reconstruct the legal fatwa and ideas on womans’ leadership, based on Islamic principle and standpoint as represented in the revealed law and concrete rulings of shariah and its ethical precept and construct that outlines and suggests the ideal position that typically suit womens’ intrinsic nature for assuming the task of leadership.

Hadith of Women Leadership in the Qira'ah Mubadalah Approach

Hadith become the source of both law in Islam, where textual and contextual application is used. Some hadith needed editors of the qur’an texts to get an understanding of the hadiths being studied. In this study, we adopted one hadiths which is still a public debate. The focus of this research is that of women’s leadership gifts to be studied by Mubadalah methods the one that was championed by Faqihuddin Abdul Qadir. Footsteps his research was to throne the hadith and to explain the terms and then apply traditional thought Mubadalah as a step to gaining an understanding of the hadith which did not affect women’s subornation anymore. Further explaining the roles that women have performed in public space the study concludes that basic Islamic principle used in the hadith is surah An-Nisa verse 59 and the surah at-taubah verse 71. In both the verse explained the reprisals for those who had faith and obedience to their leaders. Then the main idea when discovered applies the mubadalah method is either the lack of luck or luck a victory for nation. And the final step is to enter the subject which is there is no mention (men). Men could’ve done damage if he’d been a leader. The understanding given by the mubadalah method is how to make a hadith impression at all parties, not only one participant and costs other by using the passage of the qur’an as understanding.