Monthly Seminar: Achievement of Gender Mainstreaming : Between Opportunities and Challenges

The Women’s Study Center conducts priority activities based on the following three things, namely:

Education and Training Program

1. Develop a perspective-based gender curriculum
2. Conducting Gender Mainstreaming training, Gender Sensitive Research Methodology, Leadership Training, Capacity Building, Gender Responsive Budgeting Planning, and others
3. Develop an innovative learning process and have a gender perspective
4. Develop a multidisciplinary science that has a gender perspective
5. Organizing business management training in the field of tourism and helping develop the empowerment of women’s roles

Research Program

1. Plan and direct research that has a global perspective, is beneficial to human welfare, and upholds human rights in a gender perspective
2. Developing perspective gender research activities that synergize with industry, research institutions, central government, local governments, domestic and foreign
3. Develop a reward system for researchers to encourage the creation of a conducive research environment
4. Encourage the development of research facilities that are easily accessible for use
5. Increase the involvement of S1, S2, S3 students in gender research activities
6. Encouraging gender research directed at the advancement of science and technology, obtaining patents, industrial development, solving real problems, developing national culture, developing works that can be utilized by the community
7. Empower research to publish research results both in journals and internationally
8. Conduct seminars, discussions, and workshops both locally, nationally, and internationally
9. Carry out research based on tourism, such as the Study of Increasing the Role of Women in Tourism in 5 Provinces of West Sumatra, North Sumatra, DIY, NTB and South Sulawesi

Community Service Program

1. Dissemination of the results of gender research in the community
2. Services that can empower people with a gender perspective (productive behavior)
3. Integrated consulting services
4. Mentoring marginalized and helpless communities
5. Involve students in community service activities related to gender empowerment

One of them is Monthly Seminar: Achievement Of Gender Mainstreaming: Between Opportunities And Challenges. Until now there are still many who do not understand between Gender and Sexuality, even though the struggle of women to be equal with men has been going on for a long time, Alva has written the book Women Two Roles (Alva, 1952), but until now there are still contradictions about the struggle of the people women.

The struggle of feminists in Indonesia can be said to be successful. The success of the feminist movement can also be seen from the commitment of the government which encourages women to be sovereign in the political field, self-reliant in the economic field, and personality in the cultural field.

In 1985, the idea emerged that the state must be actively involved, so that Gender Mainstreaming emerged. The keywords at this stage are women/gender must be involved in development planning, implementation, monitoring, and evaluation. Cultural and structural challenges, including the existence of several social problems that are considered unimportant External challenges include those relating to the social system, cultural values, men’s attitudes towards feminism, men who assume that women’s struggles will be competitors, not male escort in development activities.