International Journal of Social Science Studies Vol. 5, No. 5; May 2017 ISSN 2324-8033 E-ISSN 2324-8041 Published by Redfame Publishing URL: http://ijsss.redfame.com 16 The Accessibility of Informal Urban Women Workers (Study of Street Vendors in Malang, Indonesia) Diyah Ayu Amalia Avina 1 1 Lecturer, Social and Political Faculty, University of Brawijaya, Malang, Indonesia Correspondence: Diyah Ayu Amalia Avina, Lecturer, Social and Political Faculty, University of Brawijaya, Malang, Indonesia. Received: February 28, 2017 Accepted: March 29, 2017 Available online: April 12, 2017 doi:10.11114/ijsss.v5i5.2350 URL: https://doi.org/10.11114/ijsss.v5i5.2350 Abstract The effort to increase people’s welfare through empowerment of informal woman workers to increase household income becomes interesting and important to do it. The empowerment of informal woman workers has important roles to decrease unequal distribution income and give substantial contribution for overcome the problem of unemployment. However, although woman had given income in the family, the man dominates the decision-making of the household rules. The accessibility should be directly proportional to the decision-making in the household rules. The purpose of this research is for 1) to analyze the motivation of informal urban woman worker, 2) to analyze the experience of woman worker, 3) to analyze education, 4) to analyze the capital of the worker, 5) to analyze the urban informal decision-making in the household rules. This research did in Malang. The population of this research is 1000 street vendors in Malang. Then, the sampling is taken using Random Sampling Method. The sample of this research consists of 24 respondents of street vendors. The result of the research is between motivation of work, work experience, and the fund are positively related to accessibility and the decision-making in the household rules have not high accessibility. It is due to very strong culture of patriarchy in society. Keywords: woman, informal worker, accessibility 1. Introduction 1.1 Background In the wider society and especially for family, a woman has to educating, taking care, and be role model for her children. Actually, women also contribute in the public sector to run the economic sector. There are multiple roles of woman in a family in general, as a homemaker and work. The urban woman had many jobs to earn money as real potential and as active participation human resources. One of the serious problems still faced by urban communities and also in rural is poverty that forced each family ultimately to work hard and work together in this regard is the father and the mother. In urban areas, the population of woman reaches 53%. Woman’s gait to come forward starting open widely by the growth of woman in grab every available opportunity to search for the source of income. Nici Nelson found more women with restrictiveness than men in the selection of its economic activity so that the informal sector is often as women's choices, since the informal sector is accessible rely on their own local resources. The over plus of informal sector as a relaxing for their activities job opportunity become interesting alternative for wo man in order to earn income. Many informal economic activities did by women by consider time allocation for family and workdays of household. The result of the various research showed that business activity in the informal sector, especially in the sectors of trade can be expected to support the household economy (Jafar, 1994; Widaningroem; Sunaryo, and Djasmani, 1992; Subarsono, 1998; Soetrisno, 1999). Thus, the efforts to improve the well-being of the community through empowerment of woman merchants of the informal sector in order to increase household income be interesting and important to do. In addition, the empowerment of woman traders the informal sector has important roles to reduce the inequality of income distribution and provide a major contribution in tackling the issues of unemployment (Gilbert and Gugler, 1996). brought to you by CORE View metadata, citation and similar papers at core.ac.uk provided by International Journal of Social Science Studies