Filters

1987 - 198912000 - 20102
Reset filters

Settings

Subject: Gender role ×

Search Results

Now showing 1 - 3 of 3
  • ItemRestricted
    Women's participation in the service sector: a theoretical and actual analysis, 1980-1986
    (1987-03-18) Catacutan, Catherine G.; Cañero, Marinor C.; Castro, Amado A.
  • ItemRestricted
    Women presidents: evidence of gender-bias in policy, social reactions and economic implications
    (2006-03) Natividad, Roana Michelle P.B; Bautista, Maria Socorro
    This paper employs statistical methods and regression techniques in order to arrive at several conclusions regarding female heads of state: the factors for having them, their effects on the country and the relationships that can be formed between them and other economic variables. This is done through the use of cross-country panel data (segregated for developed and least-developed/developing countries) from 1960 to 1990, and on Philippine time-series data from 1980 to 2001. Several conclusive results are found. First, a significant factor leading to the increased probability of placing of women as heads of state is a low initial level of per capita GDP. Second, there is a significant shift in public policy when there is a female head of state, resulting in the improvement of a country's human and gender development, most especially for developed countries. Third, the existence of a female head of state consistently has, for all countries, a positive relationship with military revolutions and coups and a negative relationship with economic growth, political instability and real exchange rate distortions. For the regressions on Philippine data, it is found that a female president's administration spends higher on health, defense and debt service, with crime rates shooting up during her term and tourist arrivals dropping.
  • ItemRestricted
    Gender gap: a study on the impacts of demographic and socioeconomic factors on the basic education participation of males and females in the Philippines
    (2010-12) Agarma, Jovy Mariz Villamor; Echiverri, Kathryn Rachelle De lara
    The Annual Poverty Indicators Survey (2004) was used to identify possible factors affecting the gender gap in school participation rates of children aged 13-18 in the Philippines. Unlike in most developed and developing countries, the Philippines marks greater progress and achievements in girls compared to boys, as reflected in the increasing involvement of women in higher job positions, country governance, and other leadership positions. This is highly affected by the inequality in school involvement observed in both rural and urban areas. As a result, the country's economic performance tends to deteriorate since individual maximum potential is not reached. The maximum likelihood method was used to evaluate the impacts of demographic factors such as family size and relationship to the family head, among others, on a child's probability of being enrolled. Additionally, socioeconomic factors such as income, parents' educational background and work status, and overall health, were also included in the test to find out if these are relevant to the study. To account for the possibility of the gender gap itself, interaction variables between the individual variables and the variable "sex" were used and analyzed to determine the effect of gender, if any, on each variable used in the model.