Household Authority Inequality

Problem Background

In 2022, Indonesia is in the 85th position out of 149 countries in the global gender gap rankings. Although the rank is relatively low, the data shows that 1 out of 4 people in Indonesia are still experiencing gender inequality. For example, in employment, the female tends to work in informal jobs, receiving low and unstable income, contradicting men. Also, a man is still considered superior in the household to the woman. This gap between women and men must be immediately balanced.

According to a 2019 MSNBC survey, 62.5% of married couples said that the authority in the household was divided equally. While the other 37.5% said one person has more control in the household (tends to be the husband). One factor that makes this extraordinary is Indonesian women's belief that men are superior.

Purpose

The expected benefits of the project:

• Analyzing the causes of inequality of authority in the household
• Eliminate the patriarchal view that the husband is superior to the wife
• Forecasting trends in wife's participation in future decision-making

Outcome

The Outcome of this project are:

• Interactive infographic, expected to help society and women develop their needed aspects and eliminate patriarchal views that a husband is superior to a wife.

Scope and Limitation

• The data region used is mostly Indonesia, and some other countries have data for the topic
• The range of data used ranges from 2003 to 2018
• The intended authority is in terms of decision making in 3 aspects: Visiting decision, Household Purchase decision, and Health decision

Tech & Data

Technologies :

• Google Data Studio
• Python. Libraries that the writers used:
  • Pandas
  • Seaborn
  • Scipy
  • Scikit-learn
  • Statsmodel

Data :

• Norms & Decision Making Data (World Bank Data): Main data that contains the decision-making and norms data on several criteria by gender (https://databank.worldbank.org/source/gender-statistics#)
• Decision-Making Factor Data (World Bank Data): Complementary data to decision-making data that consists of estimated factors that can affect decision-makers, ex: employment, education, etc. (https://databank.worldbank.org/source/gender-statistics#)

Data documentation can be accessed here: https://databank.worldbank.org/metadataglossary/all/series.

Product : Interactive infographic

Interactive infographic is available in : https://ristek.link/HouseholdAuthorityInequality

Conclusion

Based on data, wives' participation in household decisions in Indonesia is relatively high. The cause of this inequality can be influenced by several factors such as belief, applicable laws, education, and other aspects. These inequalities result in unequal opportunities for men and women. With the belief that the wife can be superior to her husband, accompanied by improvements in several aspects, the wife is expected to have more significant opportunities in the future.