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Elected into office on February 25, 1986, Aquino restored democracy to the Philippines after the long dictatorship of Ferdinand Marcos. Aquino was named TIME magazine’s Woman of the Year in 1987. [21] Gloria Macapagal Arroyo was the 14th president of the Republic of the Philippines and second female president. Antecedent to that, Arroyo had ...
Concepción Felix Roque (9 February 1884 – 26 January 1967) was a Filipina feminist and human rights activist.She established one of the first women's organizations in the Philippines, Asociación Feminista Filipina, as well as one of the first humanitarian NGOs, La Gota de Leche, aimed specifically at the well-being of mothers and their children.
The Philippines is also one of 20 countries that still has a marry-your-rapist law (that is, a law that exonerates a rapist from punishment if he marries the victim after the attack). [33] [34] Women in the pre-colonial Philippines enjoyed nearly equal status with men.
The Asociación Feminista Filipina (Philippine Feminist Association) or AFF was a Filipino women's organization, founded in 1905. [1] [2] It was the first women's organization in the Philippines. [1] [3] The objective of the organization was the betterment of women's well-being regardless of class. [4]
GABRIELA, the alliance, was founded in April 1984 after 10,000 women marched in Manila, defying a Marcos decree against demonstrations. [5] GABRIELA was named in honor of Gabriela Silang, [6] a Filipina revolutionary, who led a revolt against Spain in 1763 following her husband's assassination. [7]
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There had been 76.7% of female registered voters in the 2001 elections. In 1999, the percentage of Filipino women in public service are 34.6% at the first level, 71.9% at the second level, 34.8% at the third level, and 18.2% at the cabinet level (as heads of governmental departments).
The Babae Ako movement (transl. I'm a Woman movement; stylized as #BabaeAko) is a women's rights movement in the Philippines. It was launched on May 20, 2018 as a social media campaign when twelve women of various political persuasions got together to launch a public campaign calling out what they perceived as anti-women remarks made by President Rodrigo Duterte.