Activity Updates
September 2010 - Launch of the maiden issue of the Focus on the Global South Policy Review
September 19 - In Malaysia will be held the forum called "Regional Strategy Meeting on Emerging Social and Cultural Concerns in ASEAN: Climate Change, South East Asian Peoples’ Right to Information, Labor Migration and Domestic Work and Platforms for Civil Society Engagement with the ASEAN." Focus Philippines will make a presentation on "Building a Case for an ASEAN Protocol on Freedom of Information"
September 23 - 26 - Asean People's Forum in Hanoi, Vietnam. Fore more information, please send inquiries to the following: <apfhanoi-pc@aseanpeoplesforum.net>, <apfhanoi-ws@aseanpeoplesforum.net>. Ms Dorothy Guerrero, who is in the Bangkok office of Focus, seats in the Program Committee.
September 27 - October 1 - Freedom of Information Advocacy Week
September 23 - FOI Forum
September 27 - R2KRN will visit the Senate to renew the FOI campaign
September 28 - R2KRN will meet with Representatives of the Lower House
Newsletter Articles Gender Statistics on Labor and Employment: WOMEN’S EMPLOYMENT | Gender Statistics on Labor and Employment: WOMEN’S EMPLOYMENT |
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As the global crisis worsens, women’s employment and livelihood security are getting hit hard. Women workers in the Export Processing Zones are a case in point. Moreover, according to the ILO Global Employment Trends for Women 2009 Report, “Women are also often in a disadvantaged position in terms of the share of vulnerable employment (i.e. unpaid family workers and own-account workers) in total employment. These workers are most likely to be characterized by insecure employment, low earnings and low productivity.” In the Philippines, of the 12.8 million women recorded as employed in 2006, 4.2 million are own account workers and 2.2 million are unpaid family workers. Most women are employed in wholesale and retail trade, agriculture, manufacturing and private households. The tables below summarize gender employment statistics released in 2008, giving a broad snapshot of women’s employment in the country. With the Philippines’ jobs crisis exacerbated by the global slump, several reports and analyses are expecting conditions to deteriorate, in the formal and informal sectors, as well as the productive and reproductive spheres.
Labor
Force Participation Rate (LFPR)
Employment by Industry 2007 (In Thousands)
Employment by Class of Worker
Underemployed Women
Notes: 1. Details may not add up to totals due to rounding 2. Labor force is the sum of all the employed and unemployed persons 3. Labor force participation rate is the ratio of the total labor force to the total household population 15 years old and over multiplied by 100
a *The NSO adopted the new (ILO) definition of unemployment in the LFS questionnaire starting with the April 2005 survey round. As the data for January 2005 were based on the old definition of unemployment, averages for 2005 cannot be computed for the four survey rounds (January, April, July and October). Due to the change in methodology, labor force data series for 2005 and onwards are not comparable with the old. r Revised. Starting with the January 2007 Labor Force Survey Round, the population projection based on the 2000 Census of Population was adopted to generate labor force statistics per NSCB Resolution No. 1 series of 2005. For 2006 data, recalculation of employment indicators was done using the population projections based on the 2000 Census of Population. Thus, starting 2006, LFS data series are not comparable with previous years. SOURCE: 2008 GENDER STATISTICS ON LABOR AND EMPLOYMENT (www.bles.dole.gov.ph) |
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