Women in the Philippines

of the Philippines and the United States” KEYWORD: Diversity is being unique of each individual in different dimensions such as race, gender, sexual orientation, age, socio-economic status, physical appearance, abilities, religious beliefs, political beliefs and other ideologies. Difference of each individual has a good and bad side depending on the set goal and its outcome. To best illustrate diversity let’s compare 2 different nationality that has great impact with each other, Philippines…

recount their childhood, rituals taught by family members, and customs only known to them that makes learning about their culture a beautiful experience. This cross-cultural interview began by delving into the history of the Philippines, the interviewees native home. The Philippines…

attention and action that have lead to significant impact in the ground, there is still a wide gap between human trafficking and the understanding of the various modern faces of forced labor. One of the many modern faces of forced labor in the Philippines that remain the least comprehended is the abuse of workers in the domestic work sector. Domestic workers, or household helps, are one of the most vulnerable and susceptible groups that tremendously face abuse, discrimination,…

war production. The poster “Women: There 's work to be done and a war to be won ... Now! See your U.S. Employment Service” portrays cartoon women from all different war jobs building the word “Women.” This poster connects to the Home Front in three main ways: first, it represents the utilization of propaganda posters for war production, second it displays how key events in the war required an increased workforce, and finally the poster exhibits new opportunities for women. The U.S Employment…

President McKinley planned on gaining control of the islands as a way to have an upper hand in international trade and train a strong naval base. The U.S military was not given consent to take over the Philippines, but the Manifest Destiny ideology led McKinley and his army to to believe that this was the only logical action that could be taken. McKinley established his imperialistic views by saying, “[…] we could not leave them to themselves - they were…

laureate of the Ramon Magsaysay Award for government service, cited for "for bold and moral leadership in cleaning up a graft-ridden agency", and recognized by The Australian Magazine as one of the 100 Most Powerful Women in the World. In addition, she brought honor to the Philippines in 2012 by being the first Filipina and the first Asian from a developing country, to be chosen in the United Nations as a judge of the International Criminal Court. Eventually, she resigned from this position…

Many people experience bullying in schools for being flamboyant, having eccentric and queer personalities or by not conforming gender roles. This discrimination also led to double standards of gay women in the Philippines are more accepted by society than gay men because gay women possessing masculine qualities which is praised while gay men often possess feminine qualities due to the patriarchal society. This led LGBT people to come together and protest against discrimination and violence…

The central theme in this study discusses the place of the Filipinos in the ethnic and class hierarchy in Hawaii society and the politicization of their position as laborers. After World War II, 6,000 immigrant labor recruits accompanied by 1,300 women and children…

around the world with two third of women engaged in domestic work in other countries”. Most of the Filipino “workers enter into nursing homes due to job availability and social networks (Novek, 2013)”. Moreover, “employers choose their care worker because they are loyal and enjoy working with older people. Care workers enter or stay because of cash, including wages, adoration, and duty to customers (Howes, 2008)”. “Migrant workers from nations like, the Philippines, who were utilized on work…

Women have been the most oppressed in the history of American society. In the Philippine culture women live a difficult oppressed life compared to the men. In the reading We Don’t Sleep Around Like white Girls, by Yen Le Espiritu she explains the different limitations that men and women have in the Philippine culture. Women in this culture are oppressed in which they aren’t allowed to do as they wish. Men in this race have freedom in which women do not. Women did not have liberty…