Indonesian people, especially Javanese, of course, 
socio-cultural construction of the role of male 
women tends to benefit men. Many values of gender 
bias occur in a society that are not caused by 
biological factors but the result of cultural 
construction such as power relations. Power 
relations to limit women's roles at home and outside 
the home because in this way so that the opposite 
sex can still control women. 
This approach emphasizes that social, cultural 
factors have placed women disadvantaged in the 
labor market.Women work in households and men 
earn a living as a form of subordination is a product 
of socio-cultural construction. This construction is 
entirely determined by social construction. 
Inequality of male and female roles is one form of 
oppression. Oppression has brought women to enjoy 
poverty without resistance to free the shackles. 
Qualitatively rural women have done much work 
both in the domestic and public sectors,but women 
are still marginalized due to gender bias policies. 
Policies in agricultural development in Java in the 
1970s had much impact on the shifting of labor from 
the agricultural sector, Javanese women were the 
group of workers most disadvantaged by 
development in the agricultural sector. Some work 
on agriculture originally loaded with female labor 
must be cut down and forced women out to find 
sources of income outside agriculture for the sake of 
their household economics (Ann Stoler, 1982; 
Pujiwati Sajogyo, 1984; Joan Hardjono, 1990; 
Endang S. Soesilowati and Darwin, 1995). Limited 
capital owned by women, limited education and 
skills forced women to work at very low wages. 
Women are increasingly having difficulty increasing 
women's resources because the workload that must 
be borne is more severe, namely completing the 
main tasks in the household, helping to make a 
living and carrying out activities that lack economic 
value. 
2.2  Independence of Poor Women 
Independence known as autonomy in Greek 
comes from the word autos means self and nemiin 
means giving up or giving. Autonomy implies the 
power to regulate itself, or the act of regulating itself 
or determining and directing itself. Women who 
have autonomy or independence means having 
freedom without relying on other parties to be free to 
move and make choices according to their needs. 
According to the Big Dictionary of the Second 
Edition of Indonesian Language autonomy is one of 
the characteristics of human existence as a form of 
recognition of one's independence. People are said to 
have independence if someone has self-esteem, 
independence and independence. Someone can 
determine the will and convey ideas by the desired 
goals without fear of threats or attacks from other 
parties who intend to control him. 
The division of labor that places women in 
domestic work and men in public works raises issues 
of injustice towards women. Women become 
dependent on men because of domestic work that 
spends even a woman's life without pay. 
Dependence of women on men can be reduced by 
placing women proportionally. Women's 
independence is the right of women to argue that 
they decide or determine the problems that exist in 
the household. So the meaning is clear that women 
are not just wingking co-operatives but must be 
positioned as equal partners who have an equal 
position in joy and sorrow. Thus women must be 
invited to speak, discuss, discuss in all matters. Of 
course, it must be done reciprocally and openly. 
Independence of rural women includes self-
regulating daily household needs, arranging and 
managing household wealth, determining work 
choices outside the home both in agriculture, as well 
as other production fields, businesses and services, 
and trade and participating in community activities. 
Independence is the ability to bring women as 
humans who have the value of living alone in 
society. Independence can be realized if there is 
recognition of humanity for its humanity. These 
changes can be made through the construction of 
socio-cultural environments as well as those of 
women. Independence is an important concept 
because it can bring women to humans who have 
their own lives in society. Independence or 
autonomy is one of the characteristics of human 
existence, as a form of recognition of one's 
independence. 
People are said to be independent if they have 
self-esteem, independence and self-sufficiency and 
have courage. Mandiri means being able to 
determine one's own will and ideas and goals; can 
realize all on their ability and not acute threats or 
attacks from other people. Independence means 
someone does not depend on others. However, 
independence with the notion of being dependent on 
others can cause confusion because women's 
independence means women who are not dependent 
on men. For example, the independence of women 
as wives means that wives know and are involved in 
every decision making in solving problems faced in 
their households. 
Women will achieve independence if women 
work and do work that generates wages so that the 
income earned can be decided for its use. Women 
are said to be independent when acting as wives 
related to education and care for children and 
domestic work arranged with their husbands is not 
only imposed on women as wives. Independent