Sunday, May 5, 2013

Women, Gender Equity, and Horizontal Strata




By: * Muhammad barir

Discussion about equity issues is very broad, since this issue is a critique of hierarchy is still an endless debate. There is many person attempt to connect hierarchy with the natural law, some one stating that the social hierarchy is a man-made construction.
Justice is often defined as a theory about how to put something in appropriate place, have very close relationship with the egalitarian principle that teach about awareness of human equality regardless to ideology, gender, culture, race, or economic class that it's all just going to makes human trapped on fanaticism, but however justice and egalitarian are two different entities and can not be equated.
In Indonesia, women grow and thrive in a system called Gono-gini. Tht is to say that between man and woman stay in miniature frames of symbiosis mutualism in life, but she have a special privilege was not granted to men.
On February 24, in Yogyakarta in an international seminar, Nasaruddin Umar expressed his criticism of egalitarian theory that emerged in France that a lot of referenced  to support gender equality argument such Fatima and Amina Wadud Muhsin. In his argument on gender, Nasaruddin Umar stated that somehow people totality can not be equated  between men and women, he gives the example of a pregnant woman can not be equated with the men in work demands because who never experience it. According to him, the term to a more appropriate to describe about that problem is equity (fairness) than equality (equality) is a derivation of the total egalitarian. Women may not be equal totality to men, that inequality not discriminate to women but that is a form of affection to protect woman inner and outer. It needs to be remembered that equity issue is was be reason of struggle and sacrifice  that was be effort by Karl Marx, Mahatma Gandhi, and Farid Esac.
The human difference is most often interpret out of ruled of his own definition, the difference is often interpreted in negativ dimensions, different people assumed weird, or even be a badness, wherever “In fact” the true meaning of different is not such that, if women are different to men, whether it is an crime?. To solve that problem it appear horizontal strata.
Strata horizontal is a way to appreciate human in the middle of his differences. Strata Horizontal is a gold and water in their respective functions. Gus Dur or commonly know with KH Abdurrahman Wahid who is founding father of plural society in Indonesia have state that the meaning of Islam is a peacefulness.

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