Peranan Tenaga Kerja Wanita Yang Bekerja Di Arab Saudi dalam Peningkatan Ekonomi Keluarga

Abstract

The difficulty of finding a job with the level of education and low skills has its own problemin the society. It had an impact on changing the role of women. Not only required toperform internal functions as a wife, but also required to earn a living to support thefamily as a function of the external economy. One of the efforts that became Labor Women(TKW) as domestic workers in Saudi Arabia, because the income earned from the samejob in the country is bigger. In addition they can also be all the pilgrimage (Haji), whichwill raise their social status in the community when they return to their homeland. ThisStudy combine both qualitative and quantitative method. Results of this study indicatethat the use of their incomes as domestic workers in Saudi Arabia is 25% of the moneythey spend on the cost of daily living, 18% for renovating the house, 17% to pay off debt,15% separately children's school fees and his brother, 14 % for new businesses, and 11%is used to provide working capital loans to families. From this it can be seen that thepresence of women who work as migrant workers contribute not only to his family butalso to the siblings and other family aggota. In addition they are also able to addressproblems of families faced before leaving, which is to fulfill the needs of daily life arevery high, it is also a matter of debt that are not able to be paid by the family, and evensome of them are capable of air over the business of the original only become laborersfarmer and jobs that do not generate large revenues into efforts were quite promising