gender

Question 1

Provides for the election of sectorial representation, including
women, in local legislative council

Answer 1

Local Government Code of 1991

Question 2

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

Answer 2

Party List Law

Question 3

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

Answer 3

Republic Act 7192 (Women in Development and Nation-Building of 1992)

Question 4

Organized effort which seeks to influence the decision making process within a specific group.

Answer 4

Political campaign

Question 5

The first female president who struggled to address her country’s economic problems
and restored democracy to the Philippines.

Answer 5

Corazon Aquino

Question 6

Sponsored new laws such as the indigenous people’s rights law and the anti-
sexual harassment law.

Answer 6

Gloria Macapagal Arroyo

Question 7

The first openly transgender woman elected to the Congress of the Philippines

Answer 7

Geraldine Roman

Question 8

Mandates primary protection under the law of the dignity of employees/applicants, and students
declaring sexual harassment as an unlawful act in the workplace and educational and training
institutions.

Answer 8

RA 7877 Anti Sexual Harassment Act of 1995

Question 9

Provides a more extensive definition of rape as a criminal act.

Answer 9

RA 8353 Anti-Rape Law of 1997

Question 10

An act that defines violence against women and their children, providing personal safety and security to
the victims, and prescribing penalties therefore, and for other purposes.

Answer 10

RA 9262 Anti-Violence against Women and Their Children Act of 2004

Question 11

denote harm inflicted upon individuals and groups that is connected to normative understandings of
their gender

Answer 11

Gender Violence