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Gender equality

The State recognizes
the role of woman in nation
-building and shall ensure the
fundamentals equality before the
law of women and men.

Article 13 Section 14

"State shall protect working women by
providing safe and healthful working
conditions, taking into account their
maternal functions, and such
facilities and opportunities that will
enhance their welfare and enable
them to realize full potential in the
service of the nation".

Philippine Plan for Gender Responsive Development

This is the overall frame that is also the point of reference for the discussions and monitoring of gender mainstreaming.

Gender and Development Budget

institutionalizing gender concerns in the mainstream development process and agenda and not just peripheral programs and projects of the government.

Framework Plan For Women

Promoting women's economic empowerment;
Advance and protect women human rights;
And promote gender responsive governance.

Local Government Code of 1991

Provides for the election of sectoral representation, including women, in local legislative councils.

Party List Law

Provides for the creation of women-oriented or women-based parties to compete under the party-list system.

Labor Code

facilities for women, prohibition of discrimination against women in respect to terms and conditions of employment, and prohibition

Women in Nation Building Law. Republic Act 7192

an act promoting the integration of women as full and equal partners of men in development and nation-building.

Republic Act 7688

An act giving representation to women in social security commission.

Anti-Sexual Harassment Law. RA 7877

An act declaring sexual harassment to be unlawful in the employment, education, or training environment.

Republic Act 7882

An act providing assistance to women engaging in micro and cottage business enterprises.

Republic Act 8353

An act expanding the definition of the crime of rape reclassifying the same as crime against persons.

Anti-Sexual Harassment Act of 1995

An Act declaring sexual harassment unlawful in the employment, education or
training environment, and for other purposes. Republic Act 7877:

SECTION 1. Title.

This Act shall be known as the "Anti-Sexual Harassment
Act of 1995."

SECTION 2. Declaration of Policy.

all forms of sexual harassment in the employment, education or training environment are hereby declared unlawful.

SECTION 3.

Work, education or training-related sexual harassment is
committed by an employer, employee, manager, supervisor, agent of the
employer, teacher, instructor, professor, coach, trainor, or any other
person who, having authority, influence or moral ascendancy over
another in a work or training or education environment, demands,
requests or otherwise requires any sexual favor from the other,
regardless of whether the demand, request or requirement for
submission is accepted by the object of said Act.

Sexual orientation

An inherent or immutable enduring
emotional, romantic or sexual
attraction to other people.

SECTION 4.

to prevent or deter the
commission of acts of sexual harassment and to provide the procedures for the resolution, settlement or prosecution of acts of sexual harassment.

SECTION 5.

such acts by the offended party and no immediate action is taken.

Republic Act 9262 or Anti-VAWC

is a result of the strong
advocacies on women's human rights
in the country. The law was deemed to
be a significant victory for all Filipino
women as it was based on the right of
women not to suffer abuse,
discrimination, and violence in their
respective relationships.

physical, psychological, sexual, and economic

Four kinds of violence against women and children

VAWC is a public crime

the crime is perpetrated not only against a
single individual, but against the entire society, thus, anyone who has personal knowledge of the abuse, violence, or discrimination can file a complaint

Protection orders can be issued against perpetrator upon filing the case, the victim

survivor or anyone who has
personal knowledge can apply for a protection order to enforce distance between her and the perpetrator

Stronger community mechanisms to respond to cases

formulate mechanism to respond to reported cases of VAWC immediately.

Violent extremism

is a form of extremism that condones and
enacts violence with ideological or
deliberate intent, such as religious
or political violence.

Domestic extremism

refers to the activity of individuals or
groups conducting criminal acts of direct action to further their protest campaign.

Violent extremism

refers to the activity of individuals or
groups conducting acts by any means to express views which justify or glorify violence.

Radicalization

is the process where a vulnerable young
person or adult changes their perception and beliefs due to exposure of an extremist influence

Gender dysphoria

Clinically significant distress caused when a person's assigned birth gender is not the same as the one with which they identify.

Gender role theory

emphasizes environmental conditions and the influence of socialization, or the
process of transferring norms, values,
beliefs, and behaviors to group
members, in learning how to behave as
a male or female.

Nuclear Family

a family unit consisting of at most a father, mother and dependent children.

Socialization

The process of learning one's culture and how to live within it.

Division of labor

is the dividing and specializing
of cooperative labor into specifically
circumscribed tasks and roles.

Family
Religion
Legal System
Economic System
Political System
Media
Knowledge System

Patriarchal Institutions

Gender expression

characteristics typically associated with
being either masculine or feminine.

Transgender

people whose gender identity and/or expression is different from cultural expectations based on the sex they were assigned at birth.

Gender and Development

Recognizing the unequal status of men and women and they have different development needs and interests.

Gender and Development

This topic looks at socialization process and the factors that influence gender development in children.

Patriarchy

It is the most powerful force in the world today, trumping other ideologies or political systems or religious beliefs.

Gender Sensitivity

Ensure that people rely less on assumptions about traditional and outdated views on the roles of men and women.

Gender Transition

Others undergo physical transitions in which they modify their bodies through medical interventions under this process.

Gender Transition

People aims to align their belief of their gender toward their outward appearance.

Gender Sensitivity

is the act of being sensitive to the ways
people think about gender. tries to ensure that people rely less on assumptions about traditional and outdated views on the roles of men and women.

Masculinity

A set of qualities, characteristics or roles
generally considered typical of, or appropriate to, a man.

RA 6725

Prohibition on Discrimination Against Women

RA 7882

Assistance for small-scale women entrepreneurs

RA 8505

Rape Victim Assistance and Protection Act of 1998

Executive Order 273

states the approval and adoption of Philippine Plan for Gender-Responsive Development, 1995-2025.

RA 9710

Magna Carta of Women

RA 6949

National Women's Day - eight day of march every year

RA 11210

The Expanded Maternity Leave Law extends the previous 60-day paid maternity leave to 105 days

Gender roles

are based on the different expectations that individuals, groups, and societies

CULTURE

It is the distinctive patterns of ideas, beliefs, and norms which characterize the way of life and relations of a society or group within a society

Gender analysis

is a valuable descriptive and diagnostic tool for development planners and crucial to gender mainstreaming efforts.

Gender discrimination

is unequal or disadvantageous treatment of an individual or group of individuals based on gender.

Discrimination in Education

the unequal treatment in admission,
financial aid, grading, classroom assignment, counseling, guidance,
and/or academic programs and opportunities.

Discrimination in employment

there are four major ways in which
people are discriminated in the work place

Hiring

biases regarding the work ethic of a gender.

Pay and benefits

men generally receive higher pay and given more opportunities to grow career-wise.

Promotions

at work, there is a phenomenon called glass ceiling, a metaphor used to describe an invisible but constantly present barrier
that prevents women and members of the minority sector from rising beyond their level in a corporate hierarchy.

Firing

being terminated from a job due to prejudices against one’s gender.

Maternity and pregnancy discrimination

a pregnant female can’t get a
job because she is pregnant while other got demoted or fired from work
because of pregnancy and other related matters in connection with her pregnancy.

Gender Equity

fairness to both men and women

GENDER RELATIONS

These gender hierarchies are often accepted as “natural‟ but are socially determined relations,

biological characteristics

generally defined human as female and male

socially constructed

set of roles and responsibilities associated with being a girl and boy women and men

Sex

is physical attributes pertaining to a person’s body contours, features, hormones, genes, chromosomes and
reproductive organs.

Sex role

A role which can be performed by only one of the sexes.

Gender

Refers to the roles, behaviors, activities, attributes and opportunities that any society considers appropriate for girls and boys, and women and men

Gender socialization

is the process through which
children learn about the social
expectations, attitudes and
behaviors typically associated
with boys and girls

Gender identity

One's innermost concept of self as
male, female, a blend of both or
neither – how individuals perceive
themselves and what they call
themselves.