Analysis of Gender Role in the Matrilineal Culture, Financial Management, and Family Wellbeing in West Sumatera Province (Case of Family in Embroidery Industry).

Abstract

West Sumatera is identical to the Minangkabau culture. Minangkabau culture has a unique culture compared to other cultures, and the only cultures in Indonesia that adopted matrilineal system. This research aimed to analyze gender role in matrilineal system, financial management activity, and family well-being in embroidery industry in West Sumatera. This research conducted in two districts: Kabupaten Lima Puluh Kota; Kota Bukittinggi. The data was collected on April until June 2012. There were 100 families as the sample of this research that was chosen purposively (respondent is wife/mother). The criteria of sample family are: intact family, there is at least a child that still enrolls in school, and the wife is get involved in the embroidery industry. The results showed that gender roles in decision making and division of labor in family were in a moderate level of gender partnerships between husband and wife in the family activities. The family financial management applied in moderate level, while the application of gender partnership has a low level. The family subjective well-being was showed by moderate level of wife satisfaction. The business income of women, gender roles of family financial management, and rural or urban location were dominant by factors that influenced family objective wellbeing; while the number of children, and gender roles in division of labor negatively effected the objective family well-being. The number of children, family income, application of family financial management were dominant by factors that influenced family subjective wellbeing; while the gender roles in division of labor, and rural or urban location negatively effected the subjective family well-being.