DISCRIMINATION AGAINST GIRLS IN THE HOUSEHOLD CHORES OF THE MBOJO ETHNIC, INDONESIA
Unknowingly, mother's parenting for boys has an impact on the perpetuation of patriarchal culture in the domestic sphere. Boys are not given the responsibility to do household chores, on the contrary, these obligations are often given to girls, such as washing dishes, cooking, cleaning the house, and even washing and ironing the clothes of all family members. Such condition then becomes a shackle for girls when they grow up and get married where the husband cannot take a stand, is lazy, or even thinks that household chores is not a husband's obligation. The researchers conducted an ethnographic study of communication on 20 randomly selected families of the Mbojo ethnic community in Penapali village, Indonesia. The study results showed that there was a gender bias in the communication patterns of parents to their daughters with expressive illocutionary sentences in giving orders, assertive illocutions when girls did not immediately respond to orders, and declaration illocutions when girls disobeyed the social reality. On the other hand, boys are freed from all these communication patterns and tend to be served by their parents or sisters. This communication culture has an impact on the future of women's lives, they face depression and post-marriage stress because they have to act as domestic workers as well as the main breadwinner of the family.
Discrimination, girls, household chores, Mbojo ethnic, Indonesia.