The Perceptions of Women’s Roles and Progress: A Study of Malay Women

Abdullah, Khaizuran; Noor, Noraini M.; Wok, Saodah

doi:10.1007/s11205-008-9242-7

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“…Malaysia is highly multicultural whereMalay women ( rather than Chinese or Indian), most of whom are Moslem, experience cultural and religious restrictions on their social and emotional expression (Abdullah, Noor, & Wok, 2008). Such women are expected to be emotionally strong and are discouraged from expressing or sharing their emotions with others.…”

Section: Cultural Aspects In Attachment and Malay Womenmentioning

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“…Parenthood is tied to the development of kinship ties, both strengthening and extending the family line into the next generation. This means that the wife's primary duty is to look after her home, being responsible for her domestic duties, with her husband taking care of external matters (Abdullah, Noor, & Wok, 2008). There is also evidence that women spend substantially more time on household chores and child-care than their husbands (Abdullah, Noor, & Wok, 2008).…”

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Exploring disorganized attachment style among Malay mothers in Malaysia: A study using the Attachment Style Interview

Kadir

Bifulco

2016

Social Work in Mental Health

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Previous studies have shown that insecure attachment style in adults is associated with mental disorder. The category of disorganised insecure style is greatly debated, in terms of its definitions and measurement, but is frequently taken as indicative of most risk for disorder and poor functioning. This study describes the qualitative element of a mixed-methods approach. A large scale survey of self-reported attachment style and depression in Malay women was followed by a subset of 61depressed women who were interviewed using the Attachment Style Interview. All proved to have insecure attachment style and the 12 described here had a disorganised or mixed style rating. This article provides a qualitative analysis of these cases, examining themes of isolation (lack of close relationships), conflict (partner negative interaction and domestic violence), dependence (both high and low), and angry and fearful attitudes to others. The paper discusses the concept of disorganised attachment style in relation to social exclusion and psychopathology.

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Section: Cultural Aspects In Attachment and Malay Womenmentioning

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Section: Cultural Aspects In Attachment and Malay Womenmentioning

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Exploring disorganized attachment style among Malay mothers in Malaysia: A study using the Attachment Style Interview

Kadir

Bifulco

2016

Social Work in Mental Health

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“…For instance, in 2005, Richard Leete reported that the high rate of gender disproportion that characterised the Malaysian educational institutions was drastically reducing (see United Nations, 2005). It was observed that females have geometrically outnumbered the males especially in secondary and tertiary institutions (Kalthom Abdullah, Noraini M. Noor and Saodah Wok, 2008;Rahim 2014;Baradan, 2014;Ka Chuan, 2006;Pua, 2006;Pua, 2005). This fact is supported by other International reports (United Nations, 2011;OECD, 2009;ADB, 2007).…”

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“…Also, the current most active labour sector, the administrative and managerial subsector still has fewer female employees than male (see Malaysia, Department of Statistics, Labour Force Survey Reports, 2003, 2000, 1990, 1980, and 1975. Although there is a claim that the trend of the females getting employed in the subsector is increasing, the rate of growth is significantly slow (see Kalthom Abdullah, Noraini M. Noor and Saodah Wok, 2008). In a 2001 report, it was found that the women constituted 36 percent of the Malaysian workforce (Women's Aid Organisation, 2001).…”

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Driving From the Backseat: An Exploratory Study of the Dearth of Malaysian Women in Political Decision-Making Process

Tamim

Kamaldeen

Zin

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JATI

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The place of women in decision-making at various strata of living has been a front-burner issue in the current milieu. The population of women in Malaysia is almost as equal the population of men. The Malaysian women have been found to excel in academic and even professional labour market than the men. Thus, they are naturally imbued with the skills and intellectual capabilities to contribute to the Malaysian national development. Notwithstanding the perceived superiority in the intellectual capability of the Malaysian women, the number of women allowed to participate in nation building in the country is abysmally low. Researchers have shown that the women have been facing challenges in assuming political positions where they can adequately and practically contribute to national development. The paper is an exploratory legal research. Therefore, employing an analysis of both primary and secondary documentary data, the paper investigates the factors that contribute to the inhibition of Malaysian women in this regard despite their landmark educational and professional progressions and achievements. The paper argues that Malaysia will profit better in its national development and nation building programmes if more women are allowed to participate in national governance. There is, therefore, the need to introduce fresh approaches and perspectives to the current efforts by the Malaysian government to ensure that it keeps up with its commitment towards the millennium development goals.

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“…However, in the light of the argument made above -that women may also use various covert strategies to secure their selfinterest -the answers can be interpreted differently. In Malaysia, women are largely expected to conform to traditional gender roles (Abdullah, Noor and Wok, 2008), whereby the husband is the "head of the household" and, in this capacity, makes the decisions regarding his wife's employment (Lie and Lund, 1994). A number of women reported that their husbands would not let them take up paid employment, not only for want of childcare facilities but also on account of normative perceptions surrounding the inappropriateness of wives working in public locations and travelling to/from work on their own (Franck, 2011).…”

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Missing women? The under‐recording and under‐reporting of women's work in Malaysia

Franck

Olsson

2014

International Labour Review

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Common methods to collect data on women's labour force participation frequently result in under-reporting and under-recording of their work. Based on fieldwork in Malaysia's Penang state, this article presents some of the difficulties associated with recording women's informal work. It contributes to theorization on the under-reporting of women's remunerative activities in official surveys by arguing that while women's work is often devalued, under-reporting may also be the result of women making strategic and pragmatic choices. By reporting themselves as "housewives", for example, they may avoid questioning their society's gendered norms while securing their own interests in work outside the home.under-reported by the women themselves. Previous studies have indeed abundantly emphasized how cultural norms shape the perception that women's work is less important or less appropriate to report (Anker, 1983; Bardasi et al., 2010;Benería, 1999;Mata Greenwood, 1999). The objective here is not to argue with such findings, but rather to propose that although such "devaluation" of work is important, under-reporting may also result from women's deliberate choice not to report their remunerative activities for what we have called "pragmatic reasons", i.e. reasons motivated by practical or realistic objectives, such as avoiding the loss of benefits (Franck, 2012). In order to examine the (overt and covert) reasons why women refrain from reporting their labour, we propose an approach that focuses on women's agency.The field work for this study was conducted in Malaysia, where female labour force participation increased dramatically during the 1970s and 1990s but stagnated or even declined thereafter. By 2008, women's participation rate was 45.7 per cent -the lowest in the Association

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The Perceptions of Women’s Roles and Progress: A Study of Malay Women

Abstract: Perceptions, Roles, Culture, Women, Progress,

Cited by 54 publications

References 12 publications

Exploring disorganized attachment style among Malay mothers in Malaysia: A study using the Attachment Style Interview

Exploring disorganized attachment style among Malay mothers in Malaysia: A study using the Attachment Style Interview

Driving From the Backseat: An Exploratory Study of the Dearth of Malaysian Women in Political Decision-Making Process

Missing women? The under‐recording and under‐reporting of women's work in Malaysia

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