This paper applies an Islamic legal sociology approach to criticize the typology of East Java society and their views on gender equality, women's empowerment, and women's roles in mosques based on the subcultures of East Java community: Mataraman, Tapal kuda, and Arek'an. The concept of male-female equality has not been fully accepted by religious leaders. There is a power relation in the Muslim society's high-power structure because religious leaders are still dominated by men while women are considered as subordinate and marginal groups. On the one hand, there is still a patriarchal cultural-based political configuration that affects gender discrimination. On the other hand, the Muslim community has not been completely established to protect women. Finally, the finding of this paper is that the role of mosque-based women in three sub-cultures of East Java shows different results. The subculture of Mataraman tends to be culturebased, whereas religion is considered as a supporting factor. The subculture of Tapal Kuda prefers to collaborate religious views with patriarchal cultures. Finally, the subculture of Arek'an is likely to dialogue religion with culture more inclusively. A progressive mosque that provides women's empowerment may break the chain of the gender-biased understanding and change the mindsets of patriarchal Muslim societies through dialogue, social interaction, and productive activities.

This paper describes some efforts to build gender equality in Islamic law against domestic violence. Family is the smallest institution in society as a mirror of a nation. Nevertheless, family problems continue to occur, including domestic violence. Domestic violence is a classic problem in a family resulting in caring for family functions to realize harmonious family. Based on the data collected, the number of women victims of domestic violence is still high, due to gender relations with patriarchal culture. This situation is legitimized by the sacred text which is still considered gender bias, such as in Islamic family law. Therefore, Islamic family law reform is obviously needed by discussing the concept of sakīnah (harmonious) family with gender equality through formal legal approach, legal culture, uṣūl fiqh (philosophy of Islamic law), and al-maqāṣid al-syarī'ah (the purposes of Islamic Law) and universal Islamic values as raḥmah li al-'ālamīn (blessing for the universe) to establish harmonious family.

Gondangmanis guava production decreases every year, this is caused by pests and plant diseases, due to decreased soil quality, and soil fertility. In addition there are no good cultivation techniques so that Gondangmanis guava only grows conventionally. The purpose of this activity, for assistance, training and development of Gondangmanis guava picking tourism village. Implementation activities begin from April 2019 until August 2019, in Gondangmanis Village, kec. Bandar kedungmulyo, Jombang. The method used is a demonstration plot, and in-depth interviews. From the results of the assistance in this 3rd year, it can be concluded that there has been assistance, training and cultivation of Gondangmanis guava production. Community participation, especially those involved in guava development activities, and utilization of livestock waste is very high. Likewise, support from community leaders and village and district level officials was very supportive. Also pioneered the formation of tourism Gondangmanis guava village. The Guava Gondangmanis Community Group and the Tourism Awareness Group (POKDARWIS) have been formed. The role of the Department of Agriculture and Animal Husbandry and the Regional Government of Bappeda in Jombang Regency is also very high, because during the preparation and coordination process, it always receives attention from the leadership of the Regional Government, as evidenced by the formation of leading tourism in Jombang.

Gender analysis is not only to determine the equality of public roles between men and women in conversational texts, reading texts in textbooks, but gender analysis can also be carried out on questions used by teachers to evaluate students. For this reason, the author will carry out a gender analysis on the school examination items in Arabic learning which are used to determine student graduation. This study aims to determine the number of questions contained in the gender variant, and whether the school exam questions presented are gender-biased. So that it can be used as evaluation material and can reconstruct evaluations that contain gender bias to become more gender responsive. This research uses a qualitative approach to library research. Data collection techniques using interviews, questionnaires, and documentation. The data analysis technique was carried out in three stages, namely data collection, data presentation and drawing conclusions. The results of the research were: 1) questions containing gender equality consisted of 4 questions, gender neutral consisted of 30 questions, and gender bias consisted of 16 questions. 2) less than half of the school exam questions are gender bias oriented with a percentage of 32%.