ANALYSIS OF WOMEN’S PARTICIPATION IN EFFORT TO INCREASE THE FAMILY INCOME

Abstract

The importance of women's participation in the current era of development becomes a place where women and men should have equal opportunity to optimize themselves without ignoring their responsibilities. One alternative that can be used to optimize the potential of women to improve their standard of living is by entrepreneurship. It is undeniable that currently there are 14% of female head of households of the total population with welfare levels below 40%. According to that fact, it affirms that involvement of women in development is very important. The purpose of this research is to analyze the participation of women in effort to increase family income through one of the programs owned by Rumah Zakat. Income that became one of the real indicators to rehabilitate certain circumstances became the main goal of the program that implemented by Rumah Zakat. The method used in this research is quantitative method with descriptive research type. The result showed that from 941 samples used, there were 712 (76%) female beneficiaries, and 229 (24%) beneficiaries were male. In addition, until June 2017 the beneficiary in this program is able to increase their average income by 9%.
 
Keywords: Poverty, Women Participation, Senyum Mandiri