An Evaluation of Regional Development in Gender Perspective: Study in East Java Regional Development Process

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10.2991/iconies-18.2019.75How to use a DOI?

Keywords

Gender, development process

Abstract

This paper aims to: Evaluation of Human Development Index (HDI) of men and Human Development Index (HDI) of women. Evaluation of achievement of Gender Development Index (GDI) and Gender Empowerment Measure (GEM) in each district/cities in East Java. And analyze the variables that affect the achievement of HDI and GDI in East Java. This study yields the following findings: (i) East Java's development based on a gender perspective indicates that the quality of men resources is better than the quality of women's human resources; (ii) all woman's HDI achievement in all districts/cities in East Java is lower than that of man's HDI; (iii) of the four components of the HDI is only one component that shows women better than men, the component of Life Expectancy; (iv) areas with the lowest human development gap between men and women are Blitar City with GDI is 98.08; (v) the most successful areas in women's empowerment are Surabaya with GEM is 82.15; (vi) the main variables affecting both men's HDI and women's HDI in districts/cities in East Java are variables of poverty and variables of per capita income.

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© 2019, the Authors. Published by Atlantis Press.

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This is an open access article distributed under the CC BY-NC license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).

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TY  - CONF
AU  - Sutikno
AU  - Henny Oktavianti
AU  - Atut Frida Agustin
PY  - 2019/10
DA  - 2019/10
TI  - An Evaluation of Regional Development in Gender Perspective: Study in East Java Regional Development Process
BT  - Proceedings of the 2018 International Conference on Islamic Economics and Business (ICONIES 2018)
PB  - Atlantis Press
SP  - 384
EP  - 389
SN  - 2352-5428
UR  - https://doi.org/10.2991/iconies-18.2019.75
DO  - 10.2991/iconies-18.2019.75
ID  - 2019/10
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