The Role of Women in Selected Batak Toba Songs Based On Gender Equality

The purpose of the study is to interpret the role of women according to both the children and thewomen in some selected Batak Toba songs,HNDI, AHDHDA, based on the gender equality. The role of womenis a hot issue in both national and international communities for it gives a big influence in both domestic andpublic work. The researcher of the study takes the selected songs as her main source of data ,and the secondones are from books and internet .The method of the research is qualitative one for she uses interpreting,describing relating to the extrinsic approach .In gathering the data she finds some CD Cassettes andbrowsing from the internet which is related to the topic, select them ,listen them many times till she is sureenough finding the correct songs ,then analyze them relate to the gender equality theory.