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Women and Men in Bicol Region
Economic Participation

Advocacy for the recognition of the economic participation of women has been going on for years. No less than the United Nations recognized the need to measure and value the women’s unpaid work when it endorsed, through the UN Economic and Social Council the valuation of women’s economic participation particularly the inclusion of the value of household goods and services in the GDP, thus: “The remunerated and, in particular, the unremunerated contributions of women to all aspects and sectors of development should be recognized, and appropriate efforts should be made to measure and reflect these contributions in national accounts and economic statistics and in the gross national product. Concrete steps should be taken to quantify the unremunerated contribution of women to agriculture, food production, reproduction and household activities”1. Valuation of such participation would result in the true appreciation of the actual contribution of women to the labor force and in the proper accounting of women’s economic output in the current system of economic accounts.

This chapter aims to present indicators on women’s economic participation. Data sources for this section include the National Statistics Office, the Cooperative Development Authority, the Land Transportation Office and “Women in Agriculture: The Philippine Case” a publication of the IPC, Ateneo de Manila University.
 
 

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1Report of the World Conference to Review and Appraise the Achievements of the United Nations Decade for Women: Equality, Development and Peace, Nairobi, 1985, as quoted by Solita C. Monsod, Removing the Cloak of Invisibility: Integrating Household Work in the Nation’s Economic Accounts, paper presented in the 10th National Convention on Statistics, October 2007

List of Tables and Figures

Table 3.1• Membership in Cooperatives by Type of Cooperative, Region V: 2005-2006
Table 3.2• Average Number of Hours Spent Per Week on Economic and Domestic Activities by Rural Women and Men, Region V: 1985, 1987 and 1990
Table 3.3• Person Who Decides How to Spend Cash Earnings, Region V: 1998
Table 3.4• Child Care Among Employed Mothers Who have Children Under Five, Region V: 1998
Table 3.5• Total Cash Remittances and Cash Brought Home of Overseas Filipino Workers, Region V: April to September, 2000-2002
Table 3.6• Cash Remittances of Overseas Filipino Workers by Mode of Remittance, Region V: April to September, 2000-2002
Table 3.7• Women and Men With Licenses and Permits Issued New and Renewal, by Classification, Region V: 2007
Table 3.8• Number of Families and Average Family Income by Sex of Household Head and Income Class, Region V: 2003
Table 3.9• Number of Household Head by Sex, Age Group and Marital Status,
Region V: 2003
Figure 3.1• Average Cash Remittances of Overseas Filipino Workers, Region V: April to September 2002
Figure 3.2• Disparity of Average Cash Remittances of Women and Men Overseas Filipino Workers, Region V: 1999-2002

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