The Concept of Gender Education in the Family to Help Achieve Sustainable Development Goals Nina Nurmila, Supiana, Irma Riyani, Acep Aripudin
UIN Sunan Gunung Djati Bandung
Abstract
One of the goals of Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) is gender equality (Goal 5). To achieve this goal, the concept of gender education is needed especially in the family, in which the basic and the first education starts. The aim of this article is to offer the concept of gender education in the family. The methodology used in this paper is feminist methodology, which facilitates women to become visible and the subject of knowledge, even though either male or female can become feminist who support for gender justice. The data is mainly based on secondary sources such as literatures on gender and annual report from Religious Courts in West Java. These data show that the cause of divorce is mainly economic problem, in which the husbands are financially unable to support the family but they still expect their wife to do their traditional roles of serving them, taking care of the children and doing houseworks. Based on these data, to help save the family from getting divorce, gender education is important. The concept of gender education offered in this article suggests flexible roles between men and women since their early age (191 words).
