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Gender Inequality in the Philippines - Essay

Gender Inequality in the Philippines

Rosalie Tesorer
Mr. Maximino Pulan
En101 M02
January 9, 2012

Inequality in Filipino Relationships

Gender equality is a special cuisine, a new recipe or rather a lost one, that has been so evasive. Filipinos, together with the whole world, started craving for it many decades ago and fortunately, the hunger is slowly being satisfied. We are one of the few who are given the chance to taste it. Philippines has high women empowerment in politics and economy compared to other countries in Asia. Women have proven themselves to be capable of holding various important positions, in the government and private companies alike. But truth be told, these are actually only a part of the real ...

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yes on the second question. But why are there still women who squeal in delight, "Oh, you are such a gentleman!" or girls who dreamily say "I want to go on a date with him, but I should wait for him to ask me" or girlfriends who want to be pampered? We cannot judge these people but it is obvious that the equality in relationships is not really a fight. It is just like a food everybody is endorsing to be delicious on television but in reality, nobody really likes the taste.
Our religion can be one of the main ingredients of this unattainable balance. Being under the Spanish colonization for more than three hundred years is enough to imprint the values of Catholicism in generations after generations which can withstand the western influences. The after taste of that chapter in our history is too strong to forget. The Bible has many passages suggesting, directly or indirectly, that man is superior over woman. There is the divine creation where God took a piece of man's ribs to ...

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