Gender Issues in Student Scientific Papers: Study of Student Thesis of Faculty of Da'wah and Communication Sciences UIN Syahada Padangsidimpuan, Indonesia

Abstract

Da'wah and gender research has been carried out before, but focusing on gender research and da'wah higher education is still very limited. This study aims to analyze the theme of gender in the thesis work of students of the Faculty of Da'wah and Communication Sciences, Sheikh Ali Hasan Addary State Islamic University, Padangsidimpuan. The method used is a documentation study with a systematic literature review to analyze gender themes contained in student thesis documents. Documents used as data sources are limited to the period of publication years, starting from 2018 to 2022. The results found that gender issues are still very limited to student theses in the last five years. Analysis of 592 FDIK theses found that none of the theses used the word gender, only 18 theses used the word gender in the text, one thesis used gender as the main theory, and one other thesis contained gender as a sub-section of discussion. Varied gender terms are only found in theses that use gender theory. The dominant keywords as representations of gender themes are roles, wives, women, women, and adolescents. This study recommends to the Faculty of Da'wah and Communication Sciences to provide knowledge and skills that can build gender awareness for students, and direct student thesis research for gender issues.