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Date Posted: 05/14/2015

Women and Men in Politics and Employment

This March, the nation celebrates the 2015 Women’s Month with the theme “Juana, Desisyon Mo ay Mahalaga sa Kinabukasan ng Bawat Isa, Ikaw Na!.” The month long celebration is spearheaded by the Philippine Commission on Women. This year’s theme aims to pay tribute to all women leaders who passionately led and continue to advance women’s advocacies.

The objectives of this year’s celebration are: (1) to recognize and highlight women’s key roles and accomplishments in leadership, power and decision-making; (2) to increase awareness on engaging women to participate at all levels of policy and decision-making; and (3) to share strategies and best practices women have employed to become successful women leaders.

To help planners and policymakers in Davao Region in crafting sound and effective plans and policies to address gender inequality, we are featuring statistics on women and men, particularly on politics and employment on this March issue of “Special Releases”.

Politics:

One for every 4 Local Officials in Davao Region is woman!

Men continued to have a strong hold in politics in the region. In 2013, only 24.4 percent of the total local elected officials in Davao Region are women. This proportion, however, is an improvement from 2007 and 2010 wherein women only comprised 20.9 percent

and 18.9 percent, respectively.

It is in legislative wherein the participation of women became increasingly apparent as almost half of the elected legislators in House of Representative from the region are women. In 2013, out of the 11 congressional law makers, five or 45.4 percent are women. In 2007 and 2010, women representatives in congress only constitutes 9.1 percent and 27.3 percent, respectively.

Contrary to the increasing share of women in congress is the decline of women Board Members. Although from the 20.0 percent share in 2007, it increased to 27.5 percent in 2010, yet it tumbled to 12.5 percent in 2013.

From 2007 to 2013, out of the 4 provincial governors in the region, one of them is a woman. Beginning 2013, there is also 1 woman vicegovernor, an enhancement from the previous years when all vice-governors are men.