Indonesian women in public service leadership : A rapid review
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McLaren, Helen, Star, Cassandra and Widianingsih, Ida. (2019). Indonesian women in public service leadership : A rapid review. Social Sciences. 8(11), p. Article 308. https://doi.org/10.3390/socsci8110308
Authors | McLaren, Helen, Star, Cassandra and Widianingsih, Ida |
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Abstract | Masculinist contours have legitimized male domination in Indonesia’s upper public service ranks. However, some women have managed to crack the glass ceiling. A systematic search was undertaken of seven academic databases and the Google Scholar search engine to identify facilitative features of women’s career advancement through Indonesia’s echelon ranks. Fourteen articles, representing nine studies, were identified. While policy initiatives exist to increase women’s representation and career advancement, studies consistently identified little application to practice. Patterns across the studies located women’s career advancement as an individual concern and showed that women wanting careers were expected to manage the double burden of productive and reproductive life, obtain permissions from husbands and extended family, and adopt masculine leadership traits to garner colleagues’ support. Barriers frequently outweigh opportunities for career advancement; these including entrenched homo-sociability asserting that men make better leaders. Consequently, the blocking of women’s opportunities invoked personal disappointments, resulting in women’s public denial of their leadership ambitions. |
Keywords | Indonesia; women; leadership; public service; civil service |
Year | 2019 |
Journal | Social Sciences |
Journal citation | 8 (11), p. Article 308 |
Publisher | Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute (MDPI AG) |
ISSN | 2076-0760 |
Digital Object Identifier (DOI) | https://doi.org/10.3390/socsci8110308 |
Scopus EID | 2-s2.0-85075781646 |
Open access | Published as ‘gold’ (paid) open access |
Page range | 1-16 |
Funder | Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade, Australian Government |
Publisher's version | License File Access Level Open |
Output status | Published |
Publication dates | |
Online | 09 Nov 2019 |
Publication process dates | |
Accepted | 08 Nov 2019 |
Deposited | 03 Jun 2025 |
Additional information | © 2019 by the authors. Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/). |
https://acuresearchbank.acu.edu.au/item/91y99/indonesian-women-in-public-service-leadership-a-rapid-review
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