Abstract:
Gender inequality has always been a hot issue in our everyday life. Even though it
has developed far from how it used to be, gender inequality has never ceased to
exist. Indonesia was ranked second in term of the most unsafe country and being
claimed to remain as a grim place for working women. Hence, in this study, the
researcher aims to find out the direct effects of gender wage gap, gender-based
violence and the perception of glass ceiling towards women empowerment and
productivity to address the gender equality issues that are happening in a company
for the benefits of all parties, including the Multinational Company, women
employees and future research. More than that, the indirect effects of these
variables towards productivity mediated by women empowerment are also being
analyzed. In order to examine whether the direct and indirect effects exist, the
researcher uses the quantitative study that is done through spreading
questionnaires by purposive sampling. The researcher collected the answers from
135 women who are working in Multinational Corporations in Jabodetabek. The
results show that all the variables have both direct and indirect effects towards
productivity through women empowerment. However, the researcher finds out
several effects in the model that are insignificant. The effect of gender wage gap
and gender-based violence to productivity is insignificant. It is also found out that
the indirect effect of gender wage gap to productivity mediated by women
empowerment is insignificant.
