Women in Informatics Engineering Career: Perspective from Hofstede Cultural Dimension and Dayak Tribe’s Cultural Values

摘要

Dayak tribe as one of biggest tribes in Indonesia has many positive cultural values for the next generation. One of the values is that women has no inferiority compare to men. Women also always encouraged being responsible and hard work in any situation as the example from their ancestor. This study investigates by details factors influencing women engineer with Dayak cultural background in performing their work in engineering field. Some interesting finding emerged include the contra productive facts that Dayak values in one of Hofstede Cultural Dimension namely Masculinity that different with national culture of Indonesia which has Femininity. Some evidences explained in this reports based on the interviews with 5 (five) women IT engineer genuinely Dayak cultural background. The research participants involve in the research as this is a phenomenological approach that means they doing live report on the research questions. The finding would be useful to develop a model of cultural dissemination about positive cultural values for the next generation.