The Role of Women in Technology Education

The Role of Women in
Technology Education
Presented by:
MAXIMINO E. SANTOS, JR.
Ed.D. IEM
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the longest serving
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has witnessed rapid
social and economic
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for Britain and the
Commonwealth.
Margaret Thatcher
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Malala Yousafzai
Pakistani schoolgirl who
defied threats of the
Taliban to campaign for
the right to education.
She survived being shot
in the head by the
Taliban and has become
a global advocate for
womens rights,
especially the right to
education.
Lydia De Vega - Mercado

Asias Fastest Woman;
Asias Sprint Queen; 3time Southeast Asian
Games Gold Medalist; 4time Asian Athletics
Championships Gold
Medalist; Philippine and
Southeast Asia recordholder for personal best;
2-time Olympian; 1982
New Delhi Asiad Gold
Medalist; 1986 Seoul
Asiad Gold and Silver
Medalist;
Leticia Ramos-Shahani
Leticia Ramos-Shahani
is the first female
President Pro
Tempore in the history
of the Philippine
Senate and one of the
country's most
cosmopolitan voices
for women's rights
advocacies.
Fe del Mundo
National Scientist of
the Philippines;
pioneered pediatric
care in the country;
first woman admitted
as student in Harvard
Medical School;
founder of Childrens
Medical Centre; Order
of Lakandula; Ramon
Magsaysay Awardee
Hidilyn Diaz
First Filipina who won
an Olympic medal
Technology Education
is the study of technology, in which students "learn
about the processes and knowledge related to
technology".
As a field of study, it covers the human ability to
shape and change the physical world to meet
needs, by manipulating materials and tools with
techniques.
TECHNOLOGIES are human-made artifacts and

processes for enhancing human capabilities.
Hard technologies: tangible machines,
hardware, or utensils that can be touched.
Soft technologies: Internet access and
telecommunication devices that facilitate the
flow of information and knowledge.
Why Technology Matters

Technology also is an engine for economic growth.
Technological capability is one of the five categories for the Growth
Environment Scores (GES), Goldman Sachs composite indicator of
the economic growth environment in 181 countries. A GES study of
countries in the Persian Gulf shows that technology is so critical to
growth and economic well-being, that if lags in technology use
were addressed, along with low levels of investment and human
resource development, the region could effectively close its income
gap with the G-7 countries by 2050.
Why Technology Matters

Strong links also have been made between use
of specific technologies and growth. For example,
evidence indicates that economic growth in Malaysia
and Thailand between 1995 and 2000 would have
been negative without investments in information
and communication technology (ICT). It is also
estimated that an increase of 10 mobile phones per
100 people boosts GDP growth by 0.6 percent.
The Role of Women in the Philippines

is explained based on the context of Filipino
culture, standards, and mindsets.
The Philippines is described to be a nation of strong
women, who directly and indirectly run the family
unit,
businesses,
government
agencies
and haciendas.
Pre-European Contact
Some pre-colonial social structures of the
Philippines gave equal importance to maternal and
paternal lineage.
This bilateral kinship system accorded Philippine
women enormous power within a clan. They were
entitled to property, engage in a trade and could
exercise their right to divorce her husband
Spanish Colonial Era

Although Christian values were supposed to be
spread through the population, missionaries and
priests soon realized that they'd be better off
adapting their doctrine as much as possible to the
local customs, rather than trying to impose it.
As it happened all over Asia, women in the
Philippines were expected to become caring and
nurturing mothers for their own children and take
care of most household chores
American Colonial Period

When Spain lost the SpanishAmerican War in 1898,
the Philippines was ceded to the United States of
America. The U.S.A. introduced a new public education
system which retained opportunity to every child
regardless of gender.
Through the American-patterned school system,
Filipino women became professionals, although most
of them and their male counterparts opted for making
use of their former education roots and expressed
themselves in Spanish or Tagalog.
Contemporary Modern Philippine

Women
Modern-day Philippine women play a decisive role
in Filipino families. They handle the money, act as
religious mentors, and can also make all the
important family decisions.
Women Empowerment
refers to the provision, availability, and accessibility of
opportunities, services, and observance of human
rights which enable women to actively participate and
contribute to the political, economic, social, and
cultural development of the nation as well as those
which shall provide them equal access to ownership,
management, and control of production, and of
material and informational resources and benefits in
the family, community, and society.
- (R.A 9710 Art.2 Magna Carta for Women)
Women Economic Empowerment

The Magna Carta of Women (MCW) moves for the
empowerment of women in all spheres of development.
It seeks to eliminate discrimination through the
recognition, protection, fulfillment and promotion of the
rights of Filipino women, especially those belonging in
the marginalized sectors of the society that include the
poor. The MCW promotes gender equality which plays a
pivotal role in the fight against poverty. Through its
provisions, the MCW levels up the playing field by
making
productive
resources
and
economic
opportunities equally available for both men and
women.
Women Economic Empowerment

Generally, women do not control family
properties and decision-making rights on the use of
income, further limiting opportunities to break the
poverty cycle. Womens economic empowerment
through the MCW is deemed crucial in putting a halt
to this scenario. The fight against poverty can be won
when women are capacitated to generate income for
themselves and their families are provided with equal
access to resources in doing so.
Womens ECONOMIC ADVANCEMENT has

three components:
Economic decision-making: women have the
power to make and act on economic decisions.
Economic efficacy and self-confidence: women
have a personal sense of worth and the ability to
perform in the economic sphere.
Womens ECONOMIC ADVANCEMENT has

three components:
Access to economic resources, which include:
Assets: women have income, property, savings, and
financial capital to work productively and foster wellbeing.
Capacity: women have the education and skills to get
jobs or prosper in business.
Opportunity: women have access to credit, property,
financial, labor, and commercial markets.
Environment: women have legal and social
environments that support their economic participation
and success.
Why Women Economic Advancement Matters

The potential to advance women economically
may be the most exciting transformative feature of
technology. Empowering women and improving the
efficiency of their work is critical for reducing
poverty. Mounting evidence confirms that womens
improved economic status produces many positive
economic and welfare outcomes for children,
families, and societies:

Countries with less inequality in mens and
womens employment and education benefit from
lower child mortality, as well as more transparent
businesses and faster economic growth.
Womens ability to access income, technology, and
paid work improves their childrens welfare more
than mens access to similar resources.
A mothers social and economic status is
considered one of the best indicators of whether
her children will complete their education and
enjoy healthy, poverty-free adulthoods.

Increases in household income, particularly income
controlled by women, correlate with a boost in
childrens nutrition and survival.
Women with higher earning potential and
education tend to vaccinate their children at
roughly twice the rate of women with lower
education and earning potential.
Globally, children whose mothers enjoy higher
earning potential and education go on to complete
more education than children whose mothers have
less schooling.

Increases in household income, particularly income
controlled by women, correlate with a boost in
childrens nutrition and survival.
Women with higher earning potential and
education tend to vaccinate their children at
roughly twice the rate of women with lower
education and earning potential.
Globally, children whose mothers enjoy higher
earning potential and education go on to complete
more education than children whose mothers have
less schooling.
Four barriers can hinder womens access to

and use of technologies:
Exclusion from technology education and design
Little free time
Social norms favoring men
Financial and institutional constraints
Final Word
Past initiatives demonstrate that technologies,
if effectively applied and distributed, can produce
important economic gains for women, their families,
communities, and societies. By taking the time and
effort to apply these ideas now, we have the
opportunity to leverage technologies in a way that
puts women in developing countries on a higher
trajectory toward economic advancement while also
benefiting the aims of programs and businesses.

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The Role of Women in

Lady Ada Augusta Byron

Lydia De Vega - Mercado

TECHNOLOGIES are human-made artifacts and

Why Technology Matters

Why Technology Matters

The Role of Women in the Philippines

Spanish Colonial Era

American Colonial Period

Contemporary Modern Philippine

Women Economic Empowerment

Women Economic Empowerment

Womens ECONOMIC ADVANCEMENT has

Womens ECONOMIC ADVANCEMENT has

Why Women Economic Advancement Matters

Why Women Economic Advancement Matters

Why Women Economic Advancement Matters

Why Women Economic Advancement Matters

Four barriers can hinder womens access to

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