The figure of farming laborer female-headed households

Female householder is appeared in rural areas resulted in their poor status and live mostly in the agricultural sector as family laborer.
This study aims to describe in detail the figure of peasant female-headed households. The design of this study is a qualitative research with case study technique. The location was determined intentionally considering that Kampung Babakan Salam in Desa Pangalengan. The informants are 12 people and being researched with census method. The data collection technique is triangulation.
The result of the study shows that the informants’ background of becoming female householders is being left by the death of their husband (58.33%). The selection of the job as farm laborers was picked because of the lack of knowledge and sufficient capital (58.33%) and by perforce (41.67%). In terms of demographics, the age of the informants ranged from 40-77 years with a relatively low level of education, which is only reached elementary school level (83.33%). The welfare condition of informants is belong to the very poor family/pra-sejahtera (83.33%), poor/ KS-I (8.33%), and fair prosperous/KS-II (8.33%). Almost all informants have dual role, either doing domestic or public
Keywords: Figure, female-headed households, farming laborer, family