CHAPTER 3 Flashcards
defined by the Asian Development Bank (ADB) refers to “accelerating growth and expanding economic scale while improving the investment competition environment and increasing productive employment opportunities.”
Inclusive growth
is vital to women’s income and as a source of empowerment and autonomy within the household. Their lack of land also affects their ability to gain credit facilities.
Land ownership
Enumerate the ender issue and labor (6)
Agriculture
Industry and Manufucturing
Tourism
Business processing outsourcing
Government services
Entrepreneurship
declares the eighth day of March every year as a special working holiday.
RA 6949
This ensures meaningful observance of the holiday, where all heads of government
agencies and instrumentalities, including government-owned and controlled corporations as well as local government units, and employers in the private sector shall encourage and afford sufficient time and opportunities for their employees to engage and participate in any activity conducted within the premises of their respective offices or establishments to celebrate National Women’s Day.
RA 6949
Enumerate LAWS COVERING FILIPINO WOMEN’S RIGHT IN THE PHILIPPINES (8)
105-Day Expanded Maternity Leave Law
Prohibition on Discrimination Against Women
Anti-Violence Against Women and Their Children Act of 2004
Assistance for small-scale women entrepreneurs
Anti-Sexual Harassment Act of 1995
The Anti-Rape Law of 1997
Rape Victim Assistance and Protection Act of 1998
Magna Carta of Women
Signed into law on February 2019 by President Rodrigo Duterte, ____ extends the previous 60-day (78 days for caesarian section delivery for women workers in the private sector) paid maternity leave to 105 days.
The law also entails an option to extend for an additional 30 days of unpaid leave.
Additional 15 days paid maternity leave shall also be granted to female solo parents.
Republic Act 11210/Expanded Maternity Leave Law/ 105-Day Expanded Maternity Leave Law
prohibits discrimination with respect to terms and conditions of employment
solely on the basis of sex.
RA 6725nProhibition on Discrimination Against Women
Under this law, any employer favoring a male employee over a female in terms of
promotion, training opportunities, and other benefits solely on account of sex is considered discrimination.
RA 6725 Prohibition on Discrimination Against Women
, or An Act Defining Violence Against Women and Their Children,
Providing Protective Measures for Victims, Prescribing Penalties Therefor and for Other Purposes, recognizes the need to protect the family and its members particularly women and children, from violence and threats to their personal safety and security.
RA 9262 Anti-Violence Against Women and Their Children Act of 2004
Under this law, the state also recognizes the need to protect the family and its
members particularly women and children, from violence and threats to their personal safety and security.
RA 9262Anti-Violence Against Women and Their Children Act of 2004
This law seeks to provide all possible assistance to Filipino women in their pursuit of
owning, operating and managing small business enterprises.
RA 7882, Assistance for small-scale women entrepreneurs
the act that states the Provision of Assistance to Women Engaging in
Micro and Cottage Business Enterprises, and for other purposes, was approved in February 1995.
RA 7882, Assistance for small-scale women entrepreneurs
addresses the issue of sexual harassment committed in employment,
education or training environment. It was signed into law on February 14, 1995, under former President Fidel Ramos’ administration.
RA 7877 Anti-Sexual Harassment Act of 1995
Sexual favors made as a condition in the employment or granting promotions or
privileges; or the refusal to grant the sexual favor results in limiting, segregating or classifying the employee which in any way would discriminate, deprive or diminish employment opportunities or otherwise adversely affect is punishable by law.
RA 7877Anti-Sexual Harassment Act of 1995
states that any person having carnal knowledge of a woman through force,
threat, or intimidation or by means of fraudulent machination or grave abuse of authority will be punished
RA 8353 The Anti-Rape Law of 1997
Depending on the severity of the case, the offense may be punishable reclusion
perpetua or life imprisonment.
RA 8353 The Anti-Rape Law of 1997
declares the policy of the State to provide necessary assistance and
protection for rape victims.
RA 8505 Rape Victim Assistance and Protection Act of 1998
The government shall coordinate its various agencies and non-government
organizations to work hand in hand for the establishment and operation of a rape crisis center in every province and city that shall assist and protect rape victims in the litigation of their cases and their recovery.
RA 8505 Rape Victim Assistance and Protection Act of 1998
is a comprehensive women’s human rights law that seeks to eliminate
discrimination through the recognition, protection, fulfillment, and promotion of the rights of Filipino women, especially those belonging in the marginalized sectors of the society.
RA 9710 Magna Carta of Women
It conveys a framework of rights for women based directly on international law.
RA 9710 Magna Carta of Women
Pursuant to this law (MCW) is ____ that states the approval and adoption of
Philippine Plan for Gender-Responsive Development, 1995-2025.
Executive Order 273
Enumerate WOMEN’S ISSUES IN DEVELOPMENT
WOMEN IN DEVELOPMENT (WID)
WOMEN AND DEVELOPMENT (WAD)
GENDER AND DEVELOPMENT (GAD)
The ___ approached this issue-the exclusion of women
from development program and approaches.
Women in Development (WID)
The ___ approach emphasized the importance of the integration of women into development programs and planning. Accordingly, this was the best way to improve women’s position in society.
WID
was successful in helping secure a prominent place for women’s issues at the United Nations (UN) and other international development agencies.
WID
asserts that women have always been important economic actors.
WAD
The main focus of ____ is on the interaction between women and development Women, as a result, were being increasingly associated with backwardness and the
traditional while men were increasingly identified with modern and progressiveness
WAD
The __ approach, developed in the 1980s, stepped away from WID and WAD and
was founded in socialist-feminist ideology
GAD
The ___ approach holds that the oppression of women stems largely from a neoliberal focus on improving women’s reproductive and productive capacities
GAD
The ___ approach is exceptionally difficult for non-governmental organizations (NGOs) to implement. It seeks to confront the root causes of gender inequality rather than implement short-term augmentations to the existing system.
GAD
is an essential industry that provides most of the world’s food supply and all other agricultural products essential for humans and animals.
Agriculture
• It is a purposeful work where the diverse activities are mostly performed by men.
Agriculture
The passage of ____ carry the important dimensions for agriculture modernization.
Agriculture and Fisheries Modernization Act of 1997 (RA 8435)
Key Issues in Agriculture (4)
Land
Farm employment
Access to credit
Education and training
The state guaranteed equal right to ownership of land equal shares of farm produce for
both men and women, only a few rural women are even give land titles.
Land
Women’s access to credit and other financial services hampers their ability to
establish enterprise and engage in income-generating activities.
Access to credit
Enumerate Ensuring Equal Access to Natural Resources (4)
-Promoting Inclusive Governance of Land and Water Resources
-Facilitating Women’s Access to labour- Saving Technologies to Overcome Production Constraints
-Promoting Gender- Responsive Climate- Smart Agriculture Approaches
-Strengthening Farmers Capacities for Efficient and Sustainable Production
The Philippines participation in United Nations ___ (CEDAW) in 1980 is substantial in promoting development and empowerment of Filipino women
Convention on the Elimination of
All Forms of Discrimination against Women
considers rural women’s right to land, and natural resources, forestry, as well as fisheries. As such, states parties ensure effective access to agricultural resources including information, land distribution, technologies, and meaningful participation in agricultural cooperatives, in which women may be members or the sole members.
CEDAW
Enumerate Agricultural and rural development laws, policies and strategies (6)
-Magna Carta of Women (MCW), Republic Act (RA) 9710
-Women in Development and Nation, Building Act, RA 7192
-Comprehensive Agrarian Reform Law (CARL), RA 6657, Comprehensive Agrarian Reform Program (CARP)
-Agri-Agra Law of 2009, RA 10000
-Philippine Fisheries Code of 1998, RA 8550
-National Action Plan on Women, Peace and Security (NAPWPS) 20172022
-Philippine Plan for Gender-Responsive Development (PPGD) 1995-2025
Declares that equal status is given to women and men in land titling and issuance of land instruments. Recognizes the following human rights of marginalized women farmers, fishers, rural workers, and indigenous peoples.
Magna Carta of Women (MCW), Republic Act (RA) 9710
What does section 20 of MCW state
-Right to food
Right to resources for food production
The State shall guarantee the availability of food in quantity and quality sufficient to satisfy the dietary needs of individuals, the physical and economic accessibility for everyone to adequate food that is culturally acceptable and free from unsafe substances and culturally accepted, and the accurate and substantial information to the availability of food, including the right to full, accurate, and truthful information about safe and health-giving foods and how to produce and have regular easy access to them;
Sec 20 Right to food
The State shall guarantee women a vital role in food production by giving priority to their rights to land, credit, and infrastructure support, technical training, and technological and marketing assistance
Sec 20 right to resources for food production
The State recognizes the role of women in nation building and shall ensure the fundamental equality before the law of women and men. The State shall provide women rights and opportunities equal to that of men.
Women in Development and Nation, Building Act, RA 7192
– Women of legal age, regardless of civil status, shall have the capacity to act and enter into contracts which shall in every respect be equal to that of men under similar circumstances. In all contractual situations where married men have the capacity to act, married women shall have equal rights.
SECTION 5. Equality in Capacity to Act (under Women in Development and Nation, Building Act, RA 7192)
: Promotes the rights of rural women, independent of their male relatives and of their civil status, to own and control land, to receive a just share of fruits of the land and to be represented in advisory or appropriate decision-making bodies.
CARL
Under the ___, women rural labores have equal rights to own land.
CARL
The DAR has since adopted the ____and the ____ to improve women’s position and implement the gender equality provisions of the CARL.
Memorandum Circular 18 of 1996
Administrative Order No. 1 of 2001
: Contains a section on rural women as a special area of concern.
CARP
The ____ mandates all banking institutions to set aside at least 25 percent of their total loanable funds for agriculture and fisheries: 15 percent for agricultural lending and 10 percent for agrarian-reform beneficiaries.
Agri-Agra Law of 2009
The law defines ‘qualified borrowers’ and is gender-neutral in its description.
Agri-Agra Law of 2009 RA 10000
The State is to “provide support to the fishery sector, primarily to the municipal fisherfolk, including women and youth sectors, through appropriate technology and research, adequate financial, production, construction of post-harvest facilities, marketing assistance, and other services”, through mechanisms
Philippine Fisheries Code of 1998, RA 8550
Mechanism in ra 8550
Bureau of Fisheries and Aquatic Resources
(BFAR)
Municipal/City Fisheries and Aquatic
Resources Management Councils (M/CFARMCs) and Integrated Fisheries and Aquatic Resources Management Councils (IFARMCs),
addresses the situation of women in armed conflict and recognizes their contributions in conflict transformation by highlighting their roles as leaders and participants in the peace process in the country.
National Action Plan on Women, Peace and Security (NAPWPS) 20172022
The Plan also encourages forging stronger links between government agencies and non-government organizations (NGOs).
Philippine Plan for Gender-Responsive Development (PPGD) 1995-2025
The Triple Divide:
Digital, Rural and Gender
involves designing, developing and applying innovative ways to use
information and communication technologies (ICTs) – including digital technologies – in the rural domain, with a primary focus on agriculture, including fisheries, forestry and livestock.
E-agriculture
Role of ICTs in Agriculture (8)
Regulatory frameworks
Capacity development and empowerment
Financial services and insurance
Food safety and traceability
Agricultural innovations systems
Sustainable farming
Disaster risk management and early warning system
Enhanced market access
According to ILO, decent work includes (3)
-Work with decent income that can sustain family needs
-job security
-social protection
sustainable development Goals, ICT and Gender
