Female Workers During Post Pandemic: Gender and Investment Decisions

Abstract

Investment is an effort to balance needs, expenses and sources of income. Women are required to have basic knowledge of finance, such as controlling expenses, to setting aside money for investment. By looking at the gender perspective, this study aims to identify how investment decisions are made by female workers in making investment decisions, in addition to identifying the types of investments made by these female workers. Some of the reasons given by respondents related to why it is important to invest is security in the future. It is important for us to secure our future by means of one of them by investing. With investment, we can cultivate wealth which we can use to finance our needs in the future. We must be able to respond to the uncertainty of the future wisely. In addition to future security, the reasons and objectives for investing are education of children in the future, for emergencies, child marriage and house purchases. The choice of investments made by women includes land, deposits, property and precious metals.