Feminism criticism on the protection of women in agriculture

Feminism is a paradigm as well as a movement that focuses on gender justice.Feminism was born as a form of criticism of gender injustice in society, especially those that affect women. Within the scope of agriculture, there is often an imbalance in the roles of women and men. The inequality of roles that occurs indeed hampers the productivity of women who want to play a more profound role in the agricultural sector. One of the inhibiting factors is the double burden that women receive. The agricultural sector has put women at the lowest point, which is increasingly eroded by the industrial sector. It adds the suffering to women who are already burdened with household responsibilities are encouraged to maintain family survival by involving themselves as part of processing farmland left by men. Not infrequently, women workers in agriculture are only considered additional workers who are often paid less than male workers or even not paid at all. This is because there is still an assumption that women's main job is at home, while farming is only done to help or replace men who were not there at that time. The role of women in agriculture is often assigned to things that do not have a broad influence, namely only in physical roles. In contrast, their roles as planners, implementers of agricultural development programs to decision-making are still not recognized. Criticism of feminism intends to build a new paradigm that can generate ideas and policies to protect women's rights and empower women in agriculture. Furthermore, women are expected toimprove the quality of agriculture by involving them in all aspects. The feminism-based paradigm used in policymaking can provide protection and justice for women, especially in the agricultural sphere.