the research incorporates a generational study with an emphasis on
the opinions, attitudes and beliefs of the female respondents themselves, which
are compared and contrasted with those of their mothers. In essence the
research explores the impacts of industrialization on the culturally grounded
status of women in West Java and around Bonjoran in 1996/97. Status of
women is analyzed in terms of decision making power in the household, control of income, control of young women's human resource (factory labour) and
within the reaim of gender relation in Banjarun, both in the household and the
village. The 'social' and economic' impacts and outcomes of industrial
development upon cultural values, attitudes and traditional employment of
women are important to the demographic impacts apparent in the findings of
this paper.
