Examining Gender Economic Inequality in the PhilippinesEvelyn P. Santiago
Feminism identifies patriarchy as the root of social inequality; though oppression also exists along ethnic, religious, national and cultural axes which overlap to create multiple layers of marginalization and discrimination, all societies (with a mere handful of exceptions) are built on a system of ...
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...
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 ...
We can argue, then, that an important lesson these children learned was about gender inequality—that boys have access to power to control social interaction in ways that girls do not. The second question raised by McGuffey and Rich's (1999) research has to do with how the case of these...
The popular idea that women do not get ahead because theylack confidenceignores the intersections of inequality. Women are now being told that they should simply “lean in” and ask for more help at work and at home. “Leaning in” is a limited way of overcoming gender inequalityonly if yo...
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...
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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 ...
These works highlighted the relationship between women’s smoking and the social context of gender inequality and changing gender roles. Nine empirical articles addressed gendered social norms and women’s smoking vis-à-vis a more contemporary context [52], with most centred on the gendered ...