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...
This special issue features eight original articles written by emerging and well-established scholars from different countries, such as Australia, the USA, Thailand, Ghana, Hong Kong, Iran, Indonesia, Brunei Darussalam (the Philippines), and Saudi Arabia. This suggests that the special issue has su...
In 2015, 193 member nations of the United Nations signed the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). Goal 5 is to “achieve gender equality and empower all women and girls.” Three years into the SDG agenda, gender inequality remains a critical issue across the world. Governments can pl...
Gender economics and social policies – economic inequality, employment market, welfare, empowerment, access and control of resources, property rights, policies, law etc. Gender and globalization – migration, crises, war, climate change, market dynamism, access, value chains, availability and affordabi...
. 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, ...
It presents evidence that the inequality of opportunity that arises is wasteful and inimical to sustainable development and poverty reduction. It also derives policy implications that center on the broad concept of leveling the playing field-both politically and economically and in the domestic and the...
Previous article in issue Next article in issue Keywords 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...
(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 findings further support, the argument, that the issue of digital inclusion needs to be seen in terms of the unique information needs of various socioeconomic groups and in specific social contexts.Key Words: Gender, digital inclusion, social inequality, public access ICTsAhmed Tareq ...