Perempuan, Media dan Profesi Jurnalis

Tahun 2018, reformasi di Tanah Air memasuki usia 20 tahun. Era dimana kebebasan berpendapat dan berekspresi hadir hampir di setiap sudut kehidupan masyarakat Indonesia. Namun kondisi ini rupanya tidak sepenuhnya dialami jurnalis perempuan. Pandangan bahwa pekerjaan ini lebih cocok untuk laki-laki masih tampak dengan lebih banyaknya jumlah jurnalis pria dibandingkan perempuan. Penelitian ini ingin melihat perbedaan perlakuan perusahaan media terhadap jurnalis perempuan di dunia kerja dan bagaimana jurnalis perempuan berupaya untuk memperjuangkan nasibnya. Penelitian ini menggunakan konsep gender dan muted group theory. Penelitian ini menggunakan metode kualitatif deskriptif dengan melakukan wawancara kepada tiga jurnalis dari tiga media cetak nasional sebagai tehnik pengumpulan data. Hasil penelitian menunjukkan bahwa masih dominannya jurnalis laki-laki dibandingkan perempuan di sektor media dan sedikitnya jurnalis perempuan yang berada di jajaran puncak manajemen. Perbedaan perlakuan dalam hal fasilitas pekerjaan pun masih dijumpai, misalnya saja fasilitas kesehatan, tunjangan keluarga yang diperoleh dikaitkan dengan status single walaupun sudah berkeluarga.

All Together Now: Using Conversational Analysis and Muted Group Theory to Understand Gendered Classroom Discourse in a Cameroonian Primary Classroom

Using Conversational Analysis (Jefferson, 2004) and Ardener’s (2005) Muted Group Theory, this paper explores classroom data from an African classroom through the sociolinguistic lens of ‘gendered linguistic space’. Emphasis here is on one small village primary school in the rural area surrounding the city of Bamenda, North West, Cameroon and the embodiment of learning displayed by both boys and girls in this learning situation. Reflecting on an African classroom opens up necessary possibilities of understanding what occurs in classroom lessons around the world and ever-new ways of understanding how classroom talk impacts the learning environment in various cultural contexts. In particular, the use of choral responses heavily used in African education challenges current pedagogical ideas concerning classroom talk by offering a less gendered space to engage with learning.

Dekonstruksi Bingkai Dominasi Maskulin Dalam Buku 'Act Like A Lady Think Like A Man'

This research is a study of a self – help book, titled Act Like a Lady Think Like a Man by Steve Harvey. It is a best seller book and was adapted into a movie titled Think Like a Man. Problem arises because the book contains of masculine dominance while its main reades are women. Masculine domination in the romantic relationship can potentially cause harm such as male violence against women. This study aimed to describe the framing of masculine domination in this book and explained the background of the dominant ideology behind it. The analyzes were performed by critical paradigm and Robert Entman’s framing method. Muted Group Theory is used as a theory that explains the influence phenomenon of patriarchal ideology and book Act Like a Lady Think Like a Man to romantic relationship. The result shows the presence of masculine dominance in the terms of think and act in every chapter of the book and even though feminine – feminine value was found, it couldn’t speak out loud because it was built under the concept of patriarchy.Keywords: Domination, Masculine, Patriarchy, Gender, Self-Help ABSTRAKPenelitian ini merupakan kajian yang dilakukan pada buku teks populer jenis self – help karya Steve Harvey berjudul Act Like a Lady Think Like a Man. Buku tersebut memperoleh predikat sebagai best seller dan diadaptasi menjadi sebuah film layar lebar berjudul Think Like a Man. Persoalan muncul karena buku ini mengandung dominasi maskulin dengan pembaca utamanya adalah wanita. Dominasi maskulin dalam romantic relationship dapat membahayakan karena berpotensi menimbulkan kekerasan pria terhadap wanita. Penelitian ini bertujuan untuk mendeskripsikan pembingkaian dominasi maskulin dalam buku Act Like a Lady Think Like a Man dan menjelaskan latar belakang ideologi dominan di baliknya. Analisa dilakukan dengan paradigma kritis dan menggunakan metode framing milik Robert Entman. Muted Group Theory digunakan sebagai teori yang menjelaskan fenomena pengaruh ideologi patriarki dan buku Act Like a Lady Think Like a Man dalam romantic relationship. Hasil penelitian ini memperlihatkan pengaruh ideologi patriarki dan adanya dominasi cara berpikir dan bertindak secara maskulin dalam paparan setiab bab buku Act Like a Lady Think Like a Man, meskipun muncul juga paparan feminin – feminin namun ternyata masih terpoles dalam konsep patriarki. Kata Kunci: Dominasi, Maskulin, Patriarki, Gender, Self-Help

Spa as Arena of Career Woman Resistance to Patriarch Domination

This study examines the career women who use the habit of treating the body through the routine of coming to spas, which aims to overcome the dominance of patriarchy. This study uses several concepts. First, muted group theory, which states that woman, is the one that silenced; so to overcome this condition, women should perform self-transformation. The transformation is aligned with the second concept, feminist existentialist, which defines the transformation as the change of a woman concept from Other to Self. The transformation can be achieved not only by working outside the domestic sphere, but also supported by a good appearance through a complete body treatment. Grooming habits acquired through socialization that derived in woman since their childhood. The socialization is about how women as a person who is considered weak by the world of patriarchal domination using the power of their beauty to master, subdue, and break the domination in her life. Then, with their good appearance, woman can express their existence in everything that they do from object become subject. Spa and the whole result of the activities contained in it then consciously become a way of resistance that being used by the career woman against the domination of patriarchy which overshadowing their lives.