Socio Economic Characteristics and Patterns of Decision Making Women's Fishermen in the City Bengkulu

The role of women in the household is a very complex fishermen from productive activity, domestic, and social. Decisions taken fisherman's wife to engage in such activities is largely determined by socio - economic characteristics of households of fishermen. These characteristics will determine the pattern of decisions taken. How big is women involvement in fishermen decision making.The analytical method used was descriptive analyses. This study indicated social characteristics are age, ethnics, education, number of family members. Economic characteristics, including the distance to the workplace, length of stay, the allocation of working time and the wife revenue contribution to total household income of fishermen. Those characteristics have to consider among household decision making. Currently, their role in the decision making were equal.Current decision-making patterns have an incentive to reduce the dominance of the head of household to monopolize decisions in the household