The Construction of an Ideal Mother amid the Covid 19 Pandemic: Gender Injustice Experienced by Career Women while Working From Home

Elanda, Yelly (2020) The Construction of an Ideal Mother amid the Covid 19 Pandemic: Gender Injustice Experienced by Career Women while Working From Home. IAIN Bukit Tinggi. (Unpublished)

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Abstract

During the COVID-19 pandemic, all activities must be carried out at home, whether working, studying or worshiping. Working from home is currently known as WFH (Work From Home). For workers who are still active outside the home, WFH seems to be something they want and expect. But what about the WFH actors themselves? The media, through their articles, have written a lot about the story of working mothers who are doing WFH. This discussion becomes interesting when the construction of the ideal mother is still based on patriarchal ideology, causing gender inequality. This paper uses a critical discourse analysis method by collecting articles about women who continue to carry out their roles as career women during the WFH period. There are 72 articles that appear in the google search engine when looking for WFH mothers during the covid 19 pandemic. However, from 72 articles there are only 19 articles that talk about the stories of women who are doing WFH, tips and tricks on being a mother during WFH. In the article, the media constructs the ideal mother figure in the midst of the covid 19 pandemic. The ideal mother figure described by the media is a mother as a husband's servant, financial regulator, educator and child caretaker, and as a career woman. The construction of an ideal mother in the midst of this pandemic must be able to carry out the four identities that have been attached to her at once. The formation of this identity is influenced by the ideology that exists in society. These ideologies are patriarchal culture, ibuism and capitalism. Keywords: ideal mother construction, COVID 19 pandemic, work from home, woman career, gender injustice

Item Type:	Other
Subjects:	J Political Science > J General legislative and executive papers
Divisions:	Faculty of Social and Political Sciences
Depositing User:	Sulimin BP3
Date Deposited:	08 Dec 2021 03:00
Last Modified:	08 Dec 2021 03:00
URI:	http://erepository.uwks.ac.id/id/eprint/10602

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