GENDER SENSITIVITY IN ISLAMIC LAW (FIQIH) MATERIAL OF WOMEN IN PESANTREN (Case Study in Pesantren al-Hamidiyyah Lasem and Pesantren al-Ikhlas, Pati, Central Java, Indonesia)

Efforts to realize justice and gender equality in Fiqih study of women in pesantren need long time. This article aims to describe the study of Fiqih about women in pesantren. It used the document study method on Fiqih material about women in two pesantren in Central Java, namely Pesantren al-Hamidiyyah Lasem and Pesantren al-Ikhlas Pati, with gender analysis. This article concludes that pesantren that initially conducts women's fiqih study in neutral and gender bias seemed to experience a shift towards gender sensitivity. It can be seen in the fiqih material about women in the recent period which is equal to issues of equality and justice. This shift is marked by female jurisprudence that accommodates justice and gender equality in issues such as women's theology of creation, reproductive health, enjoyment of sexual intercourse, self-concept and other issues. This shift is caused by increasing the gender perspective of the managers in pesantren sub-system, namely kyai assistant (badal) and the teachers (ustadz-ustadzah). This increase is expected to have an impact on the improvement of santri life quality with gender justice.