rappler.com-June 20
Filipino women have biases against their own gender because they think this is “natural or inevitable,” said women’s rights expert Nathalie Africa-Verceles, interpreting data from a new report from the United Nations Development Program (UNDP): Gender Social Norms Index (GSNI). Verceles is professor at the Department of Women and Development Studies at the University of the Philippines Diliman, and former director of the UP Center for Women’s and Gender Studies. The study found that almost all or 99.5% of Filipinos held biases against women. Broken down by gender, Filipino women who hold biases against their gender were just an increment higher – at 99.67%, compared to men who had biases at 99.33%. “It is a situation “which I think is problematic,” she added. “It’s not just the men who believe this, but the women as well, which is something that we need to think very deeply about, because it also has implications on our [gender equality] strategies,” she added. Despite being one of the most gender-equal nations in the world according to the World Economic Forum’s Global Gender Gap report, the Philippines continues to grapple with a patriarchal society. A 2015 report from the Philippine Institute for Development Studies (PIDS) found that this culture of patriarchy is embedded into social structures through colonization and Church indoctrination. Read more at:
https://www.rappler.com/nation/filipino-women-highly-biased-against-own-gender/
