Most of women in
Indonesia work as teacher, seller, or office worker. However, the increase
of population in Indonesia makes the competition
for jobs is higher.It encourages women decide to take various types of jobs in
order to meet their basic needs. Now, many of them have an unusual job that
usually done by men, being a driver.
This phenomenon could be defined as a positive
deviation. Positive deviation is an event that is not in accordance with the
rules / norms, but have a positive impact on the social system where the
women’s lived. According
to the high demand of usingvehicles nowadays, makes many traffic problems in
some capital cities. Therefore, people tend to use public transportations.
One of the most wanted
public transportations is taxibike or it calls as “ojek”. Many people choose to use ojek especially in a hurry moment. The high demand for female ojek driver related to many criminal
acts againts women leads some women have a job as a female ojek driver."If in other public transportation such a bus, I
was not comfortable to be jostling with many men. I felt safer when riding ojek with female driver," said a
girl who like to use ojek with female
driver rather than another public transportations, as quoted in a news.
The change of phenomena and shifting norms that have occurred
today, said a Sociologist, have positive and negative effects. Women become to
have flexibility to earn their own income. The wide possibilities of work makes
women not only become housewives or office workers, but also havea job as a
driver of public transportations. Meanwhile, for single women, there will be
other changes. Sociologically, according to sociologist opinion, there would be
a delay in the age of marriage because they tend to have work oriented than
thinking for married. (ap)
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