CHAP 6 SECTIONAL SITUATIONER

Question 1

Work-related issues surrounding women around the globe

Answer 1

a. There are fewer women than men at work and most women only work in one sector
b. Pay Gap
c. Maternity and paternity leaves

Question 2

Women often work in vulnerable employment such as jobs with no job security or with dangerous working conditions. Examples are housemaids who are at risk for unemployment and abuse.

Answer 2

There are fewer women than men at work and most women only work in one sector.

Question 3

Specifically, women only earn 70 – 90% of what men earn in most countries. Women also work an average of two more hours a day due to additional housework.

Answer 3

Pay Gap

Question 4

the number of paid workdays that can be taken by a woman to care for her newborn child has increased in most countries.

Answer 4

Maternity and paternity leaves

Question 5

confirms that women still to face the same issues at work today as they did ten years ago. Women still experience limited career choices, lack of support facilities, sexual harassment, lack of protection for domestic workers, tenuous social protection, limited monitoring on labor standards , and unremitting promotion of labor export policy.

Answer 5

The 2015 Beijing Platform for Action (BPfA) + NGO Report of the University of the Philippines Center for Women’s Studies

Question 6

2013 Gender statistics of PSA reported that

Answer 6

Women make up 37.5% of salaried workers in the Philippines. b. 3 out of 5 women are underemployed. C. Four out of five women wage earners work full time in the service sector

Question 7

(equality in terms of number and proportion) in primary education is present not just in the Philippines but all over the world.

Answer 7

Gender Parity

Question 8

Women are underrepresented in what strand

Answer 8

STEM

Question 9

Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) developed by the UN from 2000 to 2015.

Answer 9

1. will be able to complete a full course of primary schooling
2. to eliminate gender disparity in primary and secondary education,

Question 10

Women and Health

Answer 10

1. often linked to sexual and reproductive health needs
2. teenage pregnancy; HIV/ AIDS
3. becoming more obese than men

Question 11

• aims to address the gaps in reproductive health.
• guarantees universal access to all methods of family planning, fertility management, sexuality education, and maternal care for all Filipinos

Answer 11

Responsible Parenthood and Reproductive Health Act of 2012 (RA 10354)

Question 12

1 of 3 women has experienced some form of VAW

Answer 12

Violence against women

Question 13

1 of 5 women experienced attempted or actual rape

Answer 13

VAW

Question 14

Women are prone to harassment or are made to enter domestic servitude. Others who hope to find work outside of their camps become

Answer 14

victims of forced prostitution and human trafficking.

Question 15

make indigenous Filipino women prone to harassment. Other issues include subhuman evacuation conditions,

Answer 15

Rido, or clan violence

Question 16

Women compose only 22% of the parliament today. 143 of 195 countries have constitutional provisions to ensure gender equality.

Answer 16

Women in Power and Politics

Question 17

Philippines ranked __ in the World Economic Forum Global Gender Gap Index for 201

Answer 17

7th

Question 18

groundbreaking law that serves as the “comprehensive bill of rights for Filipino Women”

Answer 18

Magna Carta of Women

Question 19

framework plan for gender mainstreaming developed by the Philippine Commission on Women (PCW)

Answer 19

Women’s Empowerment, Development, and Gender Equality (Women’s EDGE) Plan for 2013 – 2016 –

Question 20

-The Penal Code imposes heavier consequence for women who commit adultery versus men.
-The law also gives the last say regarding joint property to the male spouse

Answer 20

Laws are anti-women

Question 21

Some girl-children may fall victim to female infanticide (infant killing) and sex-selective abortion.

Answer 21

Discrimination Against the Girl Child

Question 22

Teenage pregnancy hampers the young mother’s access to education and economic

Answer 22

Discrimination Against the Girl Child

Question 23

Caregiving role of women gives them the task of preparing the daily needs of their children. It means that women cook and clean, making water and fuel a necessity in their homes. Time spent on these tasks is taken away from a woman’s productive work or education pursuits.

Answer 23

Women and the Environment

Question 24

Women, being the primary care worker in households, tend to think more about how these events might affect members of the family such as children and other dependents.

Answer 24

Women and Disaster

Question 25

Women in IP communities face issues regarding land ownership.

Answer 25

Women in the Indigenous Communities