Presentation Schedule
Political Empowerment of Women in the Rural Areas in the Philippines (91212)
Session Chair: Lydia Budod
Wednesday, 14 May 2025 10:45
Session: Session 1
Room: Room 705 (7F)
Presentation Type: Oral Presentation
This study assessed the extent of women's political empowerment in rural areas in 2023. Women’s political participation is the actual and equal involvement of women in the governance of the communities they belong to. It recognizes and values women's contribution to the governance system of any community. In the Philippines, unequal representation of women in politics is observed; thus, the study. The study used a questionnaire checklist to elicit the perceptions of the 300 respondents from the 15 barangays of the municipality selected through random sampling. Frequency counts and weighted mean were used to interpret and analyze the problems. The questionnaire has three parts. First, what are the political activities undertaken by women? Second, what are the factors that politically empower women? Third, the degree of seriousness of the problems encountered. Findings showed that the slight empowerment in terms of political activities they undertook is attributed to gender stereotyping that women are of the weaker sex. The moderate influence of the factors on political empowerment is attributed to the prevailing patriarchal norms and values that politics is more for men than women. The slight seriousness of the problems is attributed to women not expressing more interest in politics than men. Considering all these and given the existing constraints to women’s political participation, there is, therefore, a need to adopt temporary special measures to accelerate the attainment of de facto gender equality between women and men in terms of political participation.
Authors:
Lydia Budod, Mountain Province State University, Philippines
About the Presenter(s)
Dr. Lydia L. Budod is an Associate Professor at the Mountain Province State University, Bontoc, Mountain Province, Philippines.
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