Abstract :
The study attempts to investigate the gender problems of the main female
character, Pai with two research question, i.e. (1)What gender inequality does the
main female character face to be the leader in Whale Rider film script? (2)What are
the efforts of the main female character to be the leader in Whale Rider film script?
The subject of this research is Whale Rider film. The primary data of this research is
the script of Whale Rider film. The data was obtained from the writer?s observation of
the film and some sources, such as books, article, and journals which related to
gender inequality. The methods in collecting the data was by watching the film till
the end, coding the film script then make the interpretation and conclusion trough
identification the specification the specific characteristic was used. The data analysis
was conducted using feminism approach. The finding shows there are four events of
gender inequality which the main female character faces: (1) Pai turned on the boat
machine, her grandfather was mad at her and forbade her to do that again. (2) Pai
who was born as female was not recognized by her grandfather as the lineage of the
leader. (3) Pai was forbidden to sit in the line front of the sacred class. (4) Pai was
scolded by her grandfather because she used taiha secretly. Moreover, there are seven
effects such as: (1) Pai secretly followed the sacred class by hiding behind the
window?s class. (2) Pai secretly followed practicing taihafrom a far. (3) Pai secretly
asked her uncle to teach her taiha. (4) Pai fought her male friend using taiha and
won. (5) Pai sang the chant and heard by the whales. (6) Pai found reiputa which was
thrown to the ocean. (7) Pai was braved enough to give an argument in her speech about a gender role.