Program Pemberdayaan Orang Tua Responsif Gender di Lembaga Paud Kabupaten Muara Enim

Abstract

Parents have an obligation to organize education regardless of
whether they have educational knowledge or not. The low level of parental
knowledge in children's education will have an impact on negative things.
In this regard, it is necessary to conduct research on parents'
understanding of the concept of gender to determine the picture of
children's understanding in the future. This research is a quantitative
study that aims to explain the existing phenomena by using numbers to
describe the characteristics of individuals or groups. This study assesses
the nature of several conditions that appear and describes the
characteristics of something as it is. This research was conducted in 32
PAUD Institutions in Muara Enim Regency. The research target is
parents who send their children to PAUD institutions with a total sample
of 64 parents. The data collection tool is a questionnaire of 10 items that
are distributed to parents of students. Data analysis used is a percentage
technique to present data. The results of this study are that gender
responsive parents empowerment in Muara Enim District has a high
awareness in assisting their children in school both in delivering school,
attending school meetings, and activities carried out by schools but in the
provision of funding facilities gender responsive infrastructure is still
quite low as well as the involvement of parents as resource persons at their
children's school.