Filipino women workers worse off under Aquino–IBON
Filipino women workers worse off under Aquino–IBON
The plight of Filipino women workers worsened under Aquino more than one hundred years after the first International Women’s Day was celebrated, said research group IBON.
According to the group, the government refuses to significantly raise wages and instead promotes neoliberal policies such as labor flexibilization and contractualization. This has only created further job insecurity and poor quality work and intensified the exploitation that women workers in the country face today.
IBON found that the wage gap between men and women remained the same and even worsened under Aquino. Women working in agriculture made 13% less (Php135.85) than their male counterparts (Php156.32) in 2010 but this wage gap barely decreased to 12% (Php166.92 versus Php190.47, respectively) in 2014 . Worse, however, is the wage gap between women and men employed in manufacturing which went up from 7.3% (Php296.36 versus Php319.75) in 2010 to 11% (Php323.34 versus Php363.45) in 2014.
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