Women and Work in the
Philippines
Alberto, Leanne B.
Sanchez, William Kaiser A.
BSN II
Gender and Society
Women in the
Productive Sphere
Women contribute to the economy in all
forms.
• “Women are the key contributors to
the economy and to combating
poverty through both remunerated
and unremunerated work at home, in
the community and in the workplace.
Growing numbers of women have
achieved economic Independence
through gainful employment.”
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Women in the Productive Sphere
• Despite this progress, women still face the same issues they did
ten years ago—the wage gap, poverty, and the lack of decent
work opportunities, all of which also affect men. Feminization
is observed in some industries , while others impose exclusion
of women. In addition, women experience “limited career
choices, lack of support facilities, sexual harassment, lack of
protection for the informal sector and domestic workers,
tentuous social protection, limited monitoring on labor
standards, and unremitting promotion of labor export policy
•
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The Right to Decent • Specifically, Section 22 of the Magna Carta
asserts that:
Work • “The state shall progressively realize and
ensure decent work standards for women that
involve the creation of jobs of acceptable
The Magna Carta of Women states that quality in conditions of freedom, equity,
the women have the right to decent work. security, and human dignity.”
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The Right to Decent Work
• Decent work for women entails support services
that take into consideration their maternal
functions, family obligations, and work
responsibilities. Decent work also involves the
access to day-care services, breast-feeding
stations, and maternity and paternity leave
access.
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The Multiple
Burden of Women
Women contribute to the economy in all
forms.
• Women joining the labor force
still have to attend to their
reproductive roles at home.
Having both reproductive and
productive work is what
feminists call the “double day”
or “multiple burden”.
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The Multiple Burden of Women
• Household chores include cooking, cleaning,
washing the dishes, childcare, and caring for the
elderly or sick persons of their homes. While this
work benefits both men and women, the fact that
these fall on the shoulders of women is often
unquestioned.
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The Valuation of Care • Care or reproductive work is the
base of a society. The valuation of
Work this traditionally gendered task must
be given importance in order for true
While many studies on care work discuss
the ways to influence culture and society so gender justice to prevail.
that both men and women can do their
work.
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Women-friendly Work Spaces
• A gender-responsive organization gives importance to
women’s true gender needs. One method to
incorporate care into systems of work by adopting
policies that allot time for parents to attend to their
child’s needs, paid activities that allow parents to do
care work at home, and accessible care work within the
organization where the parents works for.
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The Nature of
Women’s Paid Work
Women contribute to the economy in all
forms.
• Women lack of choices in work
may force them to take
dangerous jobs, assume jobs
that do not offer jobs security,
or migrate elsewhere for better
work opportunities.
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Sex-role Stereotyping at • Sex role stereotyping prevaids all
aspects of society—from what one
Work assume about men and women to
While many studies on care work discuss the type of jobs they can have.
the ways to influence culture and society so
that both men and women can do their
work.
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Small and Medium
scale Enterprises
A notable industry that has active female
participation in the Philippines is the MSMEs
• MSMEs is the small enterprise
which may consist only of the
owner only as the employee
with the business capital below
10,000 pesos. Most MSMEs are
in the form of food stalls, retail
services, or personal services
for women.
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Domestic Work and • Women in this type of work
Domestic Workers often have no fixed working
hours. There duties include
While many studies on care work discuss
the ways to influence culture and society so cooking, cleaning, childcare,
that both men and women can do their and general house keeping.
work.
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The Sex Trade
When talking about sex industry, one usually
refers to the reproductive activity called coitus or
sex in exchange for pay.
• The sex industry viewed as a
dominantly female issue
because most of sex workers are
female and most buyers are
male, this position of sex work
was created by the historical
shift in wage-labor conditions.
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Thank You!
Alberto, Leanne B.
Sanchez, William Kaiser A.
Title
Women and Work in the Philippines
BSN II
Gender and Society
