KOMPAS.com - Seiring perkembangan
waktu, perempuan kini semakin mahir dan maju dalam penguasaan teknologi. Betty Alisjahbana,
Komisaris PT Garuda Indonesia, mengungkapkan bahwa perempuan kini tak lagi memandang teknologi
sebagai hal yang aneh dan tabu.
"Mereka kini sudah mengetahui ada banyak manfaat
yang bisa diambil dan dimanfaatkan untuk meningkatkan kesejahteraan mereka dalam berbagai hal
melalui teknologi maju. Mereka pun kini sudah semakin tertantang dan mau belajar untuk menguasai
teknologi," jelas Betty, saat seminar "Kartini Next Generation" di Jakarta,
beberapa waktu lalu.
Hanya saja tak bisa dipungkiri kalau masih ada perempuan yang
beranggapan bahwa penguasaan teknologi hanya diperlukan oleh perempuan kantoran atau wirausaha.
Padahal menurut survei yang dilakukan oleh lembaga QB Leadership (lembaga yang berfokus pada
industri kreatif) yang dipimpinnya, teknologi sangat bermanfaat untuk semua perempuan, baik yang
bekerja, wirausaha, atau yang tak bekerja sekalipun.
"Untuk semua dimensi profesi
perempuan apa pun, teknologi punya peranan dan manfaatnya masing-masing," jelasnya.
Survei ini dilakukan pada tahun 2012 untuk mengetahui manfaat teknologi informasi untuk
perempuan. Pesertanya dibagi menjadi tiga kelompok, yaitu perempuan profesional, perempuan
wirausaha, dan ibu rumah tangga. Hasilnya, 95 persen perempuan entrepreneur
mengungkapkan bahwa teknologi bisa membantu mereka untuk merasa lebih sukses dibanding pria.
Dengan memanfaatkan teknologi informasi, perempuan pengusaha bisa meningkatkan kemampuan
berbinis, produktivitas, sekaligus keuntungan usaha.
"Teknologi juga akan
membantu mereka untuk menjual produk keluar negeri. Selain itu, 45 persen perempuan wirausaha
juga memanfaatkan teknologi untuk mencari supplier produk dari luar negeri untuk
menciptakan kualitas produk yang lebih baik," katanya.
Lebih jauh lagi, perempuan
pengusaha ini juga bisa memanfaatkan teknologi informasi untuk mengatur waktu kerja yang lebih
fleksibel, sehingga urusan rumah tangga bisa dikelola dengan baik.
Sedangkan untuk
perempuan profesional, biasanya mereka memanfaatkan teknologi ini untuk mengembangkan kemampuan
diri dan produktivitas bekerja. Misalnya untuk menyelesaikan pendidikan informal melalui
internet, mempromosikan diri untuk mendapatkan pekerjaan yang lebih baik, berhubungan dengan
klien di luar negeri, sampai membuat online workshop di seluruh dunia.
Untuk
menyeimbangkan kehidupan pekerjaan dan keluarga, pekerja profesional juga sering memanfaatkan
teknologi seperti Skype untuk berhubungan dengan keluarga saat mereka harus tugas keluar kota
atau keluar negeri. Kadang-kadang mereka menggunakan internet untuk browsing berbagai
resep masakan agar bisa dipraktikkan saat hari libur sehingga bisa memanjakan keluarga.
Ibu-ibu rumah tangga yang berpartisipasi dalam survei ini juga mengungkapkan bahwa
teknologi juga memberikan banyak manfaat untuk mereka. Sekalipun tidak bekerja di luar rumah,
namun teknologi bisa membantu meningkatkan pengetahuan sehingga mereka jadi lebih pandai dan
berpikiran terbuka. Menjadi ibu rumah tangga bukan berarti tidak tahu perkembangan dan
informasi dunia luar, kan? Banyak manfaat lain yang bisa diperoleh dari teknologi.
"Ibu juga tak perlu repot saat ingin menjemput anak pulang sekolah, tinggal SMS tukang
ojek langganan dansi anak langsung dijemput ke sekolahnya. Praktis dan cepat,"
pungkasnya.
Lagipula, sekarang ini berbagai peralatan rumah tangga seperti lemari es,
mesin cuci, atau kompor, juga sudah mulai menggunakan teknologi yang canggih. Apa jadinya jika
ibu rumah tangga tak mau belajar untuk menguasai teknologi?
Editor :Liwon Maulana
Sumber:Kompas.com
Ibu Rumah Tangga Juga Butuh Teknologi
From sea to shining sea, or at least from one side of the Hudson to the other, politicians you have barely heard of are being accused of wrongdoing. There were so many court proceedings involving public officials on Monday that it was hard to keep up.
In Newark, two underlings of Gov. Chris Christie were arraigned on charges that they were in on the truly deranged plot to block traffic leading onto the George Washington Bridge.
Ten miles away, in Lower Manhattan, Dean G. Skelos, the leader of the New York State Senate, and his son, Adam B. Skelos, were arrested by the Federal Bureau of Investigation on accusations of far more conventional political larceny, involving a job with a sewer company for the son and commissions on title insurance and bond work.
The younger man managed to receive a 150 percent pay increase from the sewer company even though, as he said on tape, he “literally knew nothing about water or, you know, any of that stuff,” according to a criminal complaint the United States attorney’s office filed.
The success of Adam Skelos, 32, was attributed by prosecutors to his father’s influence as the leader of the Senate and as a potentate among state Republicans. The indictment can also be read as one of those unfailingly sad tales of a father who cannot stop indulging a grown son. The senator himself is not alleged to have profited from the schemes, except by being relieved of the burden of underwriting Adam.
The bridge traffic caper is its own species of crazy; what distinguishes the charges against the two Skeloses is the apparent absence of a survival instinct. It is one thing not to know anything about water or that stuff. More remarkable, if true, is the fact that the sewer machinations continued even after the former New York Assembly speaker, Sheldon Silver, was charged in January with taking bribes disguised as fees.
It was by then common gossip in political and news media circles that Senator Skelos, a Republican, the counterpart in the Senate to Mr. Silver, a Democrat, in the Assembly, could be next in line for the criminal dock. “Stay tuned,” the United States attorney, Preet Bharara said, leaving not much to the imagination.
Even though the cat had been unmistakably belled, Skelos father and son continued to talk about how to advance the interests of the sewer company, though the son did begin to use a burner cellphone, the kind people pay for in cash, with no traceable contracts.
That was indeed prudent, as prosecutors had been wiretapping the cellphones of both men. But it would seem that the burner was of limited value, because by then the prosecutors had managed to secure the help of a business executive who agreed to record calls with the Skeloses. It would further seem that the business executive was more attentive to the perils of pending investigations than the politician.
Through the end of the New York State budget negotiations in March, the hopes of the younger Skelos rested on his father’s ability to devise legislation that would benefit the sewer company. That did not pan out. But Senator Skelos did boast that he had haggled with Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo, a Democrat, in a successful effort to raise a $150 million allocation for Long Island to $550 million, for what the budget called “transformative economic development projects.” It included money for the kind of work done by the sewer company.
The lawyer for Adam Skelos said he was not guilty and would win in court. Senator Skelos issued a ringing declaration that he was unequivocally innocent.
THIS was also the approach taken in New Jersey by Bill Baroni, a man of great presence and eloquence who stopped outside the federal courthouse to note that he had taken risks as a Republican by bucking his party to support paid family leave, medical marijuana and marriage equality. “I would never risk my career, my job, my reputation for something like this,” Mr. Baroni said. “I am an innocent man.”
The lawyer for his co-defendant, Bridget Anne Kelly, the former deputy chief of staff to Mr. Christie, a Republican, said that she would strongly rebut the charges.
Perhaps they had nothing to do with the lane closings. But neither Mr. Baroni nor Ms. Kelly addressed the question of why they did not return repeated calls from the mayor of Fort Lee, N.J., begging them to stop the traffic tie-ups, over three days.
That silence was a low moment. But perhaps New York hit bottom faster. Senator Skelos, the prosecutors charged, arranged to meet Long Island politicians at the wake of Wenjian Liu, a New York City police officer shot dead in December, to press for payments to the company employing his son.
Sometimes it seems as though for some people, the only thing to be ashamed of is shame itself.
Finding Scandal in New York and New Jersey, but No Shame