SPECTRUM: Journal of Gender and Children Studies

Kebijakan Perlindungan Pekerja Migran Perempuan Kabupaten Blitar

Novita Maulida Ikmal — 2025-12-31

This study aims to analyze the strategies and challenges in implementing gender-responsive protection policies for Indonesian migrant workers. Migrant worker protection is a strategic issue that requires attention to gender equality, given that the majority of migrant workers are women and are vulnerable to discrimination, violence, and exploitation. This study uses a qualitative descriptive approach, collecting data through in-depth interviews, observations, and reviewing policy documents at the central and regional levels, particularly at the One-Stop Integrated Service (LTSA). The results indicate that the main strategies for policy implementation include strengthening institutional capacity, providing gender-based services, improving legal literacy for migrant workers, and strengthening inter-agency cooperation. However, implementation still faces various challenges, including limited human resources with a gender perspective, suboptimal cross-sectoral coordination, and minimal policy dissemination at the grassroots level. This study recommends the need to integrate a gender perspective into every stage of migrant worker protection, increase gender-responsive budgets, and involve civil society in policy oversight.

Pengaruh Shalwar Kameez dan Tagar #DoNotTouchMyClothes Sebagai Simbol Feminisme Digital di Afghanistan

Nisryna Lintang Aenuna — 2025-12-31

The return of Taliban rule in Afghanistan was followed by the issuance of regulations by the Taliban restricting women's freedom of expression, one of which is the obligation for Afghan women to wear the burqa in their daily lives. This has sparked a digital feminist movement advocating for women's freedom of dress in Afghanistan, using the hashtag #DonNotTouchMyClothes alongside posts of women wearing Shalwar Kameez. The digital feminist content posted on Instagram, X, and TikTok was analysed using qualitative methods, employing a discourse analysis approach and drawing on journal literature. Through postcolonial feminist theory, the performativity of gender, and cyber feminism, the author explains the influence of digital feminist content in terms of its widespread reach among global citizens. The use of the hashtag #DonotTouchMyClothes and the posting of Shalwar Kameez are forms of resistance against Taliban regulations that do not align with the norms and identities of Afghan women that have existed before these regulations. The conclusion drawn from this research is that digital feminism not only requires many allies to achieve success but also necessitates direct volunteer assistance on-site and material support to control and achieve tangible success in social life effectively.

Pengalaman Sosial Perempuan Berwirausaha di Bidang perdagangan Teknologi: Studi Kasus Pedagang di Hitech Mall Surabaya

Abdul Qodir Jaelani — 2025-12-31

This study aims to describe the social experiences of women entrepreneurs in the technology trade sector, particularly in facing social interactions influenced by gender bias, domestic stereotypes, ethnic discrimination, and environmental stigma. Using Alfred Schutz's phenomenological qualitative approach, this study explores the subjective meanings of the actions of female traders through in-depth interviews with five informants whose identities have been concealed. The results show that female traders face structural inequality in the form of professional belittlement, social exclusion, price injustice, and the spread of slander that affects business continuity. These findings also confirm that women's actions are shaped by because motives that stem from previous discriminatory experiences, and in-order-to motives that reflect their goals in maintaining professional identity and business stability. Overall, this study concludes that the technology trading space is not only an economic arena, but also a social arena where women negotiate meaning, develop survival strategies, and fight for self-legitimacy in an environment that is not yet fully gender-equal.