Political Education for Female Cadres as an Effort to Gender Equality in Politics

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10.2991/icssis-18.2019.38How to use a DOI?

Keywords

Female cadres, gender equality, political education

Abstract

This study aims to describe the role of the Nasional Demokrat (Nasdem) party of the Regional Executive Board (DPW) of West Sumatra in conducting political education to female cadres as an effort to create gender equality in politics. Political parties are obliged to educate cadres by paying attention to justice and gender equality. This research employs qualitative approach with descriptive method. The participants were selected based on non-probability sampling with purposive sampling technique. To validate the data, triangulation of data sources were done. The research findings show that the party made several efforts, namely (1) the preparation of political education activities in the annual work program is conducted by division of political education of DPW of Nasdem of West Sumatra; (2) DPW of Nasdem of West Sumatra coordinated, coached and facilitated Regional Governing Councils (DPD) of Nasdem Party in West Sumatera in conducting the activities of political education to cadres.

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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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AU  - Suryanef
AU  - Al Rafni
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AU  - Hariyanti
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TI  - Political Education for Female Cadres as an Effort to Gender Equality in Politics
BT  - Proceedings of the 1st International Conference on Social Sciences and Interdisciplinary Studies (ICSSIS 2018)
PB  - Atlantis Press
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EP  - 190
SN  - 2352-5398
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