Examining Gender Economic Inequality in the PhilippinesEvelyn P. Santiago
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...
In their article, Gender (In)equality in English Textbooks in the Philippines, Eulalia Curaming and Rommel Curaming investigate the representations of gender relations in a popular English textbook series used in primary schools in the Philippines, which is a highly-ranked country in global gender ...
Slowly over the last few decades, the number and type of organisations representing the interests of women in fisheries and aquaculture have begun to grow and diversify. Little is written about this welcome growth of activity and so the new FAO Fisheries and Aquaculture Circular by Enrique Alonso-...
All ordered-logit models were run with country-clustered robust standard errors to address possible autocorrelation at the unit level, and because these Conclusion This paper argues that income and asset inequality coupled with rising familial burdens due to male out-migration, declining subsistence ...
. Hence, for example, the legal migration of entertainers from the Philippines to Japan and South Korea is an example of involvement of the State in trafficking.Footnote69 All ASEAN countries except Brunei have ratified the UN Protocol to prevent, suppress and punish trafficking in persons, ...
The figures do reveal a slight decrease in gender inequality since the employment of women is rising slightly faster than that of men, by about 2.0%/year compared to the overall figure of 1.4%/year. In 2014, about 50% of service workers, 34.5% of manufacturing workers, and 11.0% of cons...
Gender inequality Internet Mobile phones Global digital gender gaps Big data Development indicators 1. Introduction The rapid proliferation of information and communication technologies (ICTs) has been one of the most significant social phenomena of the new millennium. Today, there are estimated to be ...
(Thomas1990; Duflo2003; Duflo and Udry2004). In Mexico, married women’s earnings reduce within-household inequality because they share their income with other household members (Campos-Vázquez et al.2012). In the government sphere, the gender of the decision-maker also influences public ...
The extent to which people’s social status is associated with their parents’ status has far-reaching implications for the openness of and stratification in society. Whereas most research focused on the father-child association in advanced economies, less is known about the role mothers play in ...