WORK CHARESTERISTIC AND FORMAL SECTOR WOMEN’ WORK IN KALIMANTAN TIMUR PROVINCE

The study aims to reveal the women workers who work in sector formal. This study is located at five regencies/cities in Kalimantan Timur, which has sampling 240 respondents. The respondent is taken from women workers combinations which work in industry and service sector in big, middle, and small scale. The result shows that women workers have some characteristics namely; a) the productive age, b) have a considerable famiy responsibility, c) less leisure time, and less educated. These women workers charecteristics are linear with women’ work charesteristics of women workers.Characteristics of women workers work in Kalimantan Timur are: a) low position, b) hours of market and non-market work is high, c) low productivity levels, and d) the level of low wages. Characteristics of vulnerable workers are one of the causes of the weakness of the characteristics of women's work in Kalimantan Timur.