Women

By: Agustin, Diego, Dimalnat

Empowerment
 ESSENTIAL QUESTIONS
1. What is women empowerment?
2. What are the women empowerment principles?
3. Why there is a need for women empowerment
4. Why should it be highly regarded?
5. How does women empowerment helps the
economy?
6. What is its history?
7. What are the existing problems regarding
women empowerment?
8. What are the solutions to the various problems
 ESSENTIAL QUESTIONS
1. What is women empowerment?
2. What are the women empowerment principles?
3. Why there is a need for women empowerment
4. Why should it be highly regarded?
5. How does women empowerment helps the
economy?
6. What is its history?
7. What are the existing problems regarding
women empowerment?
8. What are the solutions to the various problems
 Empowerment

The process which enables one to gain

power authority and influence over
others, institutions or society
 WOMEN EMPOWERMENT

It is the process and the outcome of the

process by which women challenge
gender-based discrimination against
women/men in all the institution and
structures of society.
 ESSENTIAL QUESTIONS
1. What is women empowerment?
2. What are the women empowerment principles?
3. Why there is a need for women empowerment
4. Why should it be highly regarded?
5. How does women empowerment helps the
economy?
6. What is its history?
7. What are the existing problems regarding
women empowerment?
8. What are the solutions to the various problems
 WOMEN’S EMPOWERMENT
PRINCIPLES

(1)To participate fully in the economics life

across all sectors
(2)To build stronger economies
(3)To achieve internationally agreed goals
for development and sustainability
(4)To improve the quality of life for women,
families and communities
 ESSENTIAL QUESTIONS
1. What is women empowerment?
2. What are the women empowerment principles?
3. Why there is a need for women empowerment
4. Why should it be highly regarded?
5. How does women empowerment helps the
economy?
6. What is its history?
7. What are the existing problems regarding
women empowerment?
8. What are the solutions to the various problems
NEED FOR WOMEN EMPOWERMENT

(1) Educational problems

(2) Society
(3) Low confidence
(4) Lack of unity
(5) Traditional Barriers
(6) Poverty and ignorance
 ESSENTIAL QUESTIONS
1. What is women empowerment?
2. What are the women empowerment principles?
3. Why there is a need for women empowerment
4. Why should it be highly regarded?
5. How does women empowerment helps the
economy?
6. What is its history?
7. What are the existing problems regarding
women empowerment?
8. What are the solutions to the various problems
There are three reasons why it is
regarded

(1)Harassment
(2)Exploitation
(3)Discrimination
GENDER OF VICTIMES WHO
SUFFER
- ABUSE
10%

MEN
WOMEN

90%
45% Women slapped, kicked, beaten

75% Bettered women try to commit

suicide

77% Men felt their masculinity

threatened if their wives did not listen
to them

55%Women perceive violence as

normal part of their marriage
 ESSENTIAL QUESTIONS
1. What is women empowerment?
2. What are the women empowerment principles?
3. Why there is a need for women empowerment
4. Why should it be highly regarded?
5. How does women empowerment helps the
economy?
6. What is its history?
7. What are the existing problems regarding
women empowerment?
8. What are the solutions to the various problems
WOMEN’S EMPOWERMENT TO THE
ECONOMY

Investing in women’s economic

empowerment sets a direct path towards
gender equality, poverty eradication and
inclusive economic growth
 Women make enormous contributions,
whether in businesses, or farms, as
entrepreneurs or employees, or by doing
unpaid care work at home
 ESSENTIAL QUESTIONS
1. What is women empowerment?
2. What are the women empowerment principles?
3. Why there is a need for women empowerment
4. Why should it be highly regarded?
5. How does women empowerment helps the
economy?
6. What is its history?
7. What are the existing problems regarding
women empowerment?
8. What are the solutions to the various problems
(1)Lack of education
(2)Financial Constraint
(3)Financial responsibility
(4)Low mobility
(5)Low ability to bear risk
(6)Low need for achievement
(7)Absence of ambition for the achievement
(8)Social Status
 ESSENTIAL QUESTIONS
1. What is women empowerment?
2. What are the women empowerment principles?
3. Why there is a need for women empowerment
4. Why should it be highly regarded?
5. How does women empowerment helps the
economy?
6. What is its history?
7. What are the existing problems regarding
women empowerment?
8. What are the solutions to the various problems
Fulfilments of the enactments and laws
with regards to women empowerment
 ESSENTIAL QUESTIONS
1. What is women empowerment?
2. What are the women empowerment principles?
3. Why there is a need for women empowerment
4. Why should it be highly regarded?
5. How does women empowerment helps the
economy?
6. What is its history?
7. What are the existing problems regarding
women empowerment?
8. What are the solutions to the various problems
WAYS TO ACHIEVE WOMEN
EMPOWERMENT

(1)Self help groups

(2)Government Schemes
(3)Micro Finance
(4)Self Employment
 WAYS TO EMPOWER WOMEN

(1)Help them business leaders

(2)Help them grow more and
get better food
(3) Help them to get education
(4) Help them to achieve victory against
every evil
 SIX “S” FOR WOMEN
EMPOWERMENT

Shiksha =Education
Swasthya =Health
Swavlamban =Self Reliance
Samajik Nyay =Justice
Samvedan=Sensitivity
Samta =Equality
SOME EPITOMES OF
WOMEN
EMPOWERMENT
 (1)Mother Teresa
(2)Aishwarya Rai
Empowered (3)Kiran Bedi
(4)Lata Mangeshkar
Women (5)Queen Elizabeth
(6)Kalpana Chawla
(7)JK Rowling
WOMEN’S RIGHTS IN
THE PHILIPPINES
TODAY
It was only in 1937 that Filipino
women won the right to vote
having fought hard for it
 All framework of analysis are
based on the Convention on the
Elimination of All Forms of
Discrimination against Women
( CEDAW)
-ratified in 1981
In 2006, the Philippines reported
to the CEDAW Committee and
its concluding comments
revealed the gaps in the
fulfilment women and rights
Alongside CEDAW, the status if
Filipino Women is also marked
against Millennium Development
Goals (MDGs)
 Critical Areas of Concern of the
Platform for Action 1995 based on
Beijing platform (12 Critical Areas
of Concern)
(1)Social and Cultural Rights
(2)Economic Rights
(3)Political Rights
SOCIAL AND CULTURAL RIGHTS
A. Rural, Indigenous and Moro Women
B. Violence Against Women
1. Trafficking (R.A. 9208)
2. Prostitution
3. Sexual Harassment (R.A 7877)
4. Domestic Violence
C. Social and Cultural Factors
1. Religion
2. Discriminatory Provisions
a. Family Code
b. Forgiveness Clause
3. Media
ECONOMIC RIGHTS
A. The Right to Education
B. The Right to Work
1. Informal Workers
2. Female Migrant Workers
C. The Right to Health
1. Clean Environment
2. Reproductive Health
3. HIV-AIDS
 POLITICAL RIGHTS
-Article II, Section 14, of 1987 Constitution
The state recognizes the role of women in
nation-building and shall ensure the
fundamental equality before the law of
women and men

A.Political Participation
B.Right to Peace and Human
Security
“Feminism isn’t about making
women strong. Women are
already strong. It’s about
changing the way the world
perceive that strength”
G.D. Anderson
THANK YOU 