The history of women and gender in the Philippines

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Women's Suffrage in the Philippines
From a dialog on the PhilippineStudies-L, February 1995. Status of women and women's suffrace in the Philippines compared to that in Asia and in the West generally.
On RP women
By jacqueline pua de rosas, 7 June 1995. Dialog from the PhlippineStudies-L. An addendum to the previous thread. Women's role in the Philippine society.
Filipino women campaign against sex tourism
By Carla Gorton, Green Left Weekly, 22 October 1995. While the business of sex tourism continues, awareness about the organised shopping for women and children has increased. This is largely due the growing number of Australian/Filipino women and organisations campaigning to keep the issue of sex tourism and trafficking in women on the political agenda.
Gay misrepresentation in the guise of values preservation
Progay-Philippines statement of concern, 9 December 1997. We are the out, loud and proud gay men of the Progressive Organization of Gays in the Philippines (Progay-Philippines) expressing deep concern about yet another misrepresentation of homosexuals in the print ad series issued by the group Couples for Christ (CFC).
March 8: Women reveal the real issues
BAYAN press release, 8 March 1998. Around 10,000 women commemorating the 88th International Women's Day marched in key cities nationwide to reveal issues crucial to Filipino women today, far from the issues sold by presidential candidates projecting themselves to be pro-women.
In tough times, mothers go hungry
By Vinia Datinguinoo, IPS, 11 October 1998. Areas declared in a state of calamity by the Cebu City Council because of the drought, which has stretched the usual three-month dry season to more than nine months. The father should have something as the breadwinner, according to traditional belief; the children should have something because they are children; the mother, She&s the one that is expected to make the sacrifice.
Across borders: Sex trafficking of women
By Janice Lee Monte, GABRIELA News and Features, 25 February 1999. The Philippine economy is an economy artificially kept afloat by exporting human resource. It is a gloomy scenario that feeds and breeds the flesh trade. A scenario where women and children are sold. Exported. Trafficked for sex.
End redbaiting and attacks against GABRIELA!
From GABRIELA, 12 July 2002. On June 24, 2002 GABRIELA launched a week long Service Mission in the three towns of Oriental Mindoro (an island province south of Manila) most affected by militarization. The mission was cut short after the team was blatantly harassed and intimidated by the 204th Brigade of the Philippine Army.
GABRIELA's History
From GABRIELA, [2004]. Primed by the anti-dictatorship campaign and the drive for economic and political change in the Marcos years, women's organizations established the national women's coalition, GABRIELA the General Assembly Binding Women for Reforms, Integrity, Equality, Leadership, and Action. We are today a center of over a hundred women organizations, institutes, desks, and programs.
GABRIELA's Principles
From GABRIELA, [2004]. We seek to forge women's unity within and among classes and constituencies to wage a struggle for the liberation of women and the rest of the Filipino people. Its major principles/goals.