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  2. Feminization (sociology) - Wikipedia

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    Feminization of the workplace – Lower paying female-dominated occupations such as (1) food preparation, food-serving and other food-related occupations, and (2) personal care and service. [ 3 ] Feminization of smoking – The phrase torches of freedom is emblematic of the phenomenon of tobacco shifting from being seen as a male activity to ...

  3. Women's rights in Philippines - Wikipedia

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    Society in the Philippines values education very highly, especially for their children. It is understood to be the means by which personal and familial poverty can be averted -allowing for a more successful way of life. According to the Philippines's 2013 Census of Population and Housing, the literacy rate of the nation was recorded at 96.5%. [15]

  4. Feminisation of the workplace - Wikipedia

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    The feminization in the workplace destabilized occupational segregation in society. [1]"Throughout the 1990s the cultural turn in geography, entwined with the post-structuralist concept of difference, led to the discarding of the notion of a coherent, bounded, autonomous and independent identity... that was capable of self-determination and progress, in favor of a socially constructed category ...

  5. Women migrant workers from developing countries - Wikipedia

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    By the 1990s, the Philippines had become the world's largest source of government-sponsored emigrant workers. [33] Upwards of 700,000 migrant workers were emigrating from the Philippines each year, most of whom were women. Today, Filipino migrant workers send over $24 billion in remittances annually, which accounts for 8-10% of the Philippines ...

  6. Women in the Philippines - Wikipedia

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    Philippine Legislators' Committee on Population and Development Foundation (February 1992). "Philippine laws and policies on the status of women". People Count. 2 (1): 1–3. PMID 12179238. "Executive Order No. 348 of 17 February 1989 approving and adopting the Philippine Development Plan for Women for 1989 to 1992, 17 February 1989".

  7. Feminization of poverty - Wikipedia

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    Feminization of poverty refers to a trend of increasing inequality in living standards between men and women due to the widening gender gap in poverty.This phenomenon largely links to how women and children are disproportionately represented within the lower socioeconomic status community in comparison to men within the same socioeconomic status. [1]

  8. List of intersex people - Wikipedia

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    Karl M. Baer (1885–1956), German-Israeli author, social worker, suffragette and Zionist. [5]Nubia Barahona, a ten-year-old American girl murdered in 2011.; Herculine Barbin, the 19th century memoirs of this French intersex person were published by Michel Foucault in 1980. [6]

  9. Gender-equality paradox - Wikipedia

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    The gender-equality paradox is the finding that various gender differences in personality and occupational choice are larger in more gender equal countries. Larger differences are found in Big Five personality traits, Dark Triad traits, self-esteem, depression, personal values, occupational and educational choices.