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Lesson 25: Gender and

labour
Prepared by: Grasha valde, Mary Chris, Carl Justine Lapasanda
and Billy Joe Elan
Lesson Objectives:
● Understand fully the relationship of Gender, gender equality
and Labour.
● Determine the status of gender equality in the various sectors
of the labor market; and
● Comprehend the salient policies on gender equality in the
labour market.
Magna Carta of Women R.A. 9710
● Women face different constraints from men in
the labor market. This is recognized in Republic
Act 9710, known as the Magna Carta of
Women, enacted in 2009.
● This act recognizes that equality of men and
women entails the abolition of the unequal
structures and practices that perpetuates
discrimination and inequality (PCW 2010)
EMPLOYMENT SECTORS

1. Agriculture
2. Industry and Manufacturing
3. Tourism
4. Business processing Outsourcing
5. Government Services
6. Entrepreneurship
AGRICULTURE
● Women farmers do not have equal opportunity to
acquire land and register it in their own names
● They have fewer inheritance rights than male farmers.
● Land ownership is important not only to women’s
ability to earn income, but also as a source of
empowerment and autonomy within the households.
● Their lack of lands also affects their ability to gain
access to credit facilities.
INDUSTRY AND MANUFACTURING
● The number of women working in economic zones is estimated 64% of total
employment and may be much higher in some industries, such as electronic
and apparel (World Bank 2011).
● Women’s share of employment in the export-processing zones is much greater
than women’s share of the labor force as a whole, and the conditions of
employment are of concern.
● Reports suggest that working and living conditions are poor, that women find
it difficult to obtain work while pregnant and after the birth of their baby, and
that unionization is uncommon.
TOURISM
● It appears that tourism planning has not included
women or has had insufficient regard to gender issues.
● Within the tourism industry, relatively few women have
the educational qualifications or foreign language skills
to compete for front-of-house positions in the hotel
industry, as tour guides, or in travel agencies, and
women are more likely to be as housekeepers,
waitresses, or similar lower-level positions
BUSINESS PROCESSING OUTSOURCING
● The Philippines Information Technology-business Process
Outsourcing Map 2011-2016 is not gender-responsive and
does not address women’s constraints in accessing higher-
paid work in non-voice or the likely growth in information
technology and engineering.
● These matters, as well as the pay differentials between
men and women and employment conditions, requires
specific government attention.
ENTREPRENEURSHIP
● There has been a rapid surge in the number and
proportion of female entrepreneurs in
developing countries (Minniti and Naude 2010)
● Studies indicate that female -led MSMEs increase
employment opportunities for women and
contribute to wider development goals (ADB and
ILO 2013).
GOVERNMENT SERVICES
● Public sector employment is an important
source of jobs with better pay and conditions
for women that many other industrial sectors,
but women are constrained by being
predominantly employed in traditional, gender-
stereotyped care sector government
occupations such as health and education, and
they under-represented in the higher-paying
sectors.
SALIENT POLICIES ON GENDER EQUALITY IN THE
LABOR MARKET
● The Philippines has ratified 34 ILO conventions
and is party to all fundamental United Nations
human rights covenants and convention
● The country’s 1987 Constitution has enshrined
this rights in Section 3, Article VIII (Bill of Rights)
and in Section 14, Article II, which ensures
fundamental equality of women and men before
the law.
SALIENT POLICIES ON GENDER EQUALITY IN THE
LABOR MARKET

● Article 3, Chapter 1 of the Labor Code, as well as


Republic Acts 6725, 7192, 7877, and 8551, all
provide for fundamental human rights protection,
including anti-discrimination provisions, and they
ensure fundamental equality, prohibition of sexual
harassment and temporary special measures.
SALIENT POLICIES ON GENDER EQUALITY IN THE
LABOR MARKET
● The Magna Carta of Women (RA 9710) is an overall legislative
framework thata articulates the specific rights, needs, and
support required by women in their general and working lives.
● In 2012, the Philippines became the first country in Asia to ratify
the ILO Domestic Workers Conventions, 2011 (no. 189).
● In early 2013, President Aquino also signed a new law Republic
Act 10361 known as the “Batas kasambahay” (Domestic Workers
Act) in order to better protect this large group of mostly young
female workers.

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