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    The document summarizes feminist ethics from the perspective of oppression to empowerment. It discusses how ethics guide decisions and customs towards perceived good. It then defines feminism as a set of theories that examine women's experiences in a male-dominated world and aims to make women's voices more powerful to release them from subordination. Several statistics are presented showing gender inequalities in areas like time spent on work, income gaps, and violence against women. The document advocates looking at the world through women's eyes to gain a more balanced perspective given their historical oppression.

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    The document summarizes feminist ethics from the perspective of oppression to empowerment. It discusses how ethics guide decisions and customs towards perceived good. It then defines feminism as a set of theories that examine women's experiences in a male-dominated world and aims to make women's voices more powerful to release them from subordination. Several statistics are presented showing gender inequalities in areas like time spent on work, income gaps, and violence against women. The document advocates looking at the world through women's eyes to gain a more balanced perspective given their historical oppression.

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    The document summarizes feminist ethics from the perspective of oppression to empowerment. It discusses how ethics guide decisions and customs towards perceived good. It then defines feminism as a set of theories that examine women's experiences in a male-dominated world and aims to make women's voices more powerful to release them from subordination. Several statistics are presented showing gender inequalities in areas like time spent on work, income gaps, and violence against women. The document advocates looking at the world through women's eyes to gain a more balanced perspective given their historical oppression.

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    Feminist Ethics:

    From Oppression to
    Empowerment
    Amaryllis T. Torres, PHD
    Professor Emeritus
    University of the Philippines
    Ethics
    a system of moral principles that affect how
    people make decisions and lead their lives, the
    guiding beliefs of a person, group, or organization
     directs these decisions, customs and behaviors
    towards what is perceived to be good or to be
    right for the collective or social group.
     can be institutionalized in religions, philosophies,
    codes of conduct of organizations or assemblies,
    administrative or managerial rules, and by legal
    systems.
    Feminis
    m
     A set of theories that describe women’s experiences,
    behaviors, values and aspirations in a world characterized by
    male dominance.
     Inquires into the social conditions of women in a male
    dominated society and puts gender at the center of social
    inquiry, thereby making women and their perspectives visible
    and represented.
     Assumes that female subordination versus male dominance [or
    power] have characterized interpersonal and social
    relationships across age, race, class and culture for millennia.
     Goal - to make women’s voices more audible and powerful, in
    order to release women from the shackles of subordination and
    oppression, thus enabling them to claim their rights and equal
    status in society.
     “We look at the world through women’s eyes because
    for the last couple of thousand years the world has
    been looked at and spoken about through men’s eyes.
    Almost all religious texts have been written by men;
    mainly men have formulated laws in most Parliaments
    of the world; mainly men have made laws and passed
    judgments; men editors have interpreted and
    controlled news and so on.
     “Therefore, a balanced view is desperately required
    and for that we need to look at the world through
    women’s eyes.”
    Kamla Bhasin
    She adds~
     “Another reason for looking at the world
    through women’s eyes is the fact that
    women are at the bottom of all social,
    political and economic hierarchies. Hence,
    when we look at the world through
    women’s eyes, we look at it through the
    eyes of the most oppressed and exploited
    members of our societies.”
    Time spent
    on Work by
    Men and
    Women
    Women’s
    Multiple
    Burdens
    Image Credits: jesadaphorn | dreamstime.com

    Image Credits: jesadaphorn |
    dreamstime.com
    The
    Income
    Gender
    Gap

    (Reproduced from Liswood,


    https://www.weforum.org/agenda/
    2018/12/women-progress-world-
    gender-gap-2018/)
    Top Occupations of   Average Daily Basic Pay of Wage and Salary Gender Gap
    Women and Men, Workers
    Philippines 2017
    Occupatio-nal Women Occupatio-nal Men Wage Difference
    Rank Rank

    Elementary 1 ₱208.19 1 ₱272.09 ₱6.39


    Occupations

    Managers 2 ₱899.59 3 ₱943.50 ₱43.91

    Service and Sales 3 ₱293.00 4 ₱387.00 ₱94.00


    Workers

    Skilled Agricultural, 6 ₱390.08 2 ₱292.02 - ₱117.99


    Forestry and Fishery
    Workers

    Gender Wage Gaps, 2017


    Derived from Table 13.9, PSA. 2018 Gender Statistics on Labor and Employment
    Rank Name Distinction

    1 Angela Merkel Chancellor of Germany

    2 Theresa May Prime Minister, UK

    3 Christine Lagarde Managing Director, IMF

    4 Mary Barra CEO, General Motors

    5 Abigail Johnson CEO, Fidelity Investment

    Co- Founder, Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation


    6 Melinda Gates

    7 Susan Wojcicki CEO, YouTube

    Chair and Executive Director, Santander Bank


    8 Ana Patricia Botín

    9 Marillyn Hewson CEO, Lockheed Martin

    10 Ginny Rometty CEO, IBM 

    Forbes Most Powerful Women, 2018 (Top Ten)


    WOMEN IN ELECTED POSITIONS, 2016
    Half of the twelve members of the 17th
    Senate are women;
    40 percent of the members of the
    House of Representatives are women;
    Among locally elected public officials,

    Women mayors constitute 30 percent


    of all elected local chief executives,
    Women vice-mayors hold 22.5
    percent of all seats,
    And women constitute 27 percent of
    those elected to the Sangguniang
    Panlunsod at Pambayan.
    One in five (20%) women has ever-experienced emotional
    violence.

    Violence
    Against Fourteen percent have ever-experienced physical violence.

    Women &
    Girls, Five percent ever-experienced sexual violence by their
    current or most recent husband or partner.
    Philippines 53 percent of divorced, separated, or widowed women have
    2017 experienced physical, sexual, or emotional violence
    compared with 24 percent of women who are married or
    living together with a partner.

    All forms of violence generally decline with increasing


    household wealth.
    Incidence of Violence Against Women, by Age Groups
    Forms of Age Group Reference
    Violence Period/
    15-19 20-24 25-29 30-39 40-49 Total Source
    Percentage of Women Age 15-49 Who Have Experienced Various Forms of Physical
    and Sexual Violence, by Current Age
    Physical 11.9 16.5 12.7 13.0 13.5 13.5 2017/
    violence NDHS, PSA
    Sexual 2.9 5.0 4.8 5.3 5.5 5.2 2017/
    violence NDHS, PSA
    Physical and 1.0 3.3 3.4 4.0 4.2 2.8 2017/
    sexual NDHS, PSA
    violence

    Physical or 13.8 18.2 14.1 14.3 14.8 14.8 2017/


    sexual NDHS, PSA
    violence

    Number of 329 1,257 1,996 4,527 3,719 11,558 2017/


    Women NDHS, PSA

    Adapted from PSA, Factsheet on Men and Women in the Philippines. March 1, 2019
    Gender
    Equality
    The Beijing
    Declaration
    And Platform
    for Action
    Women in Action

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