Examining Gender Economic Inequality in the PhilippinesEvelyn P. Santiago
“I’m trying to run a business, put in time to be a mom, and be able to find that little ounce of personal time,” she says. “It’s a lot.” Gender inequality is alive and well in the home. Studies conducted over the past few decades show that men are more involved in ...
Especially in the Philippines, the government and media condemn migrant mothers with concerns that they are causing a family break-up. Although the economy has been sustained by remittances frommigrant workers, they shift the responsibility of family crisis only to migrant mothers and insist that ret...
Even worse, which locker room would this child go to and what would happen in the already anxious and insecure world of the locker room? These may seem like hypothetical ques- tions, but they lie at the core of an ongoing controversy about the very real cases of inter- sexed children—...
The UNDP also computed the Gender Inequality Index and measures gender inequalities in reproductive health, empowerment, and economic status. The higher the GII, the greater the inequality. These indices are well-known and accepted measurements of gender inequality. However, the link between these ...
Focus on this issue has been placed in several countries within Southeast Asia, including Indonesia, the Philippines, Malaysia, and India. Over one billion people live in India, and nearly half of the population commonly practices open defecation, creating a major health hazard to both the human...
Sex roles were differentprior to the industrial revolution, when men and women worked alongside one another on farms, doing similar tasks. Entrenched gender inequality isa product of modernity. It’s not that inequality did not exist before, it’s that inequality within the home in relation to ...
Six countries were surveyed by the GSMA in 2017: Chile, Colombia, Nicaragua, Philippines, Thailand and Vietnam. However, since Chile is now defined as a high-income country, it is not included in this analysis. Fieldwork was conducted from September to January in 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020, ...
However, the poor are not a homogenous entity. Disproportionate household and familial burdens and a relative lack of control over productive assets can enhance female vulnerability beyond that of men (Goh, 2012). In many cases, discriminatory legal institutions and social customs exacerbate these ...
Intersectionality is a theoretical framework that originated from Black Feminist thought and liberation movements, addressing the intersecting forms of inequality experienced by women globally (Collins,Citation2006; Crenshaw,Citation1989; Salem,Citation2018). The term “intersectionality” was officially coined...