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7 OUT 10 LAID OFF WORKERS ARE WOMEN Women comprise 70 to 80 per cent of the Filipino workers currently being retrenched due to the impact of global financial crisis. This was according to GABRIELA National Alliance of Women. GABRIELA based their conclusion on the data of Philippine Economic Zone Authority in 2005 that 75 to 80 per cent of workers in export processing zones are women. Currently, most of the establishments closing down or laying off workers are from the electronics industry in export processing zones. Data from the Department of Labor and Employment shows that in Region IV alone, a total of 10,344 workers in Calabarzon were displaced from October 2008 to January 19, 2009. “This is extremely alarming for the already handful of Filipino women in formal employment,” said Emmi de Jesus, secretary general of the militant women’s group GABRIELA. “We can only imagine how anxious the remaining EPZA workers with neighboring factories closing down one after another.” De Jesus also said that the women in the informal sector are also affected by the global financial crisis. “With the massive loss of jobs, less and less households can afford to hire house helpers or avail of services of laundrywomen or other odd jobs women take on to cope.” “This further job dislocation of women is ominous because it also portends of further vulnerability of women to sexual exploitation,” added De Jesus. According to De Jesus, a study done by Center for Women’s Resources, a research institute for women showed that women workers desperate to keep their jobs tend to overlook, tolerate and even accept sexual advances of superiors or employers. “Furthermore, crises always mean a boom for the illegal sex trade with the influx of women desperate for livelihood. For example, in Taiwan alone there are more than a thousand OFWs who lost their jobs and 90 per cent of them are women. With the Philippine government encouraging these workers to stay put in Taiwan for possible future employment, it is not unlikely that some of them will fall prey to sex trade,” said De Jesus. “The current devastation in the lives of the Filipino working class women is the undoing of the Arroyo government. No amount of so-called relief packages can mollify the impact of global financial crisis. The only way out is for comprehensive social change starting by extricating our economy from the stranglehold of trade liberalization impositions.”  A healthy friendship changes and grows ‒ i.e. it is dynamic. How do we know if it is alive or not? It must be growing and changing constantly. A healthy friendship will encourage personal growth as well as allow both parties to explore safely with new ideas and experiences. |
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2/3/2009 3:16 am |
slavery these days has a new face indeed, it became hi tech too! Sex slavery is a by product of a society that who'se government is abandoned its duties to its citizens. Abandonment in a sense that no work available for the many,no program to uplift the economic status of its citizenry, no social services at hand, the ruling elite are mindfull of their interests, etc. SAd, but this is the reality of my country. I've been working for the welfare and protection of women and children for two decades now and the situation is getting worst because of the policies of the government. There is the exodus of filipinos, 3000 are leaving the country everyday to work overseas because there is no available work in my country. These 3000 filipinos, 80% of them are prone to slaver and sex slavery...! Aside from that, our government is subservient to its colonial master! A healthy friendship changes and grows ‒ i.e. it is dynamic. How do we know if it is alive or not? It must be growing and changing constantly. A healthy friendship will encourage personal growth as well as allow both parties to explore safely with new ideas and experiences.
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2/3/2009 3:18 am |
75% of the 90 million filipinos are suffering from deprivation, poverty, opporession and exploitation brought about by its own government A healthy friendship changes and grows ‒ i.e. it is dynamic. How do we know if it is alive or not? It must be growing and changing constantly. A healthy friendship will encourage personal growth as well as allow both parties to explore safely with new ideas and experiences.
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hayz! our current economic situation is the main reason why i'm having a second thought of resigning from the company i am working now...but what would i do, am no longer happy...what's the sense of staying if am no longer happy doing my work?
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2/11/2009 7:36 am |
hayz! our current economic situation is the main reason why i'm having a second thought of resigning from the company i am working now...but what would i do, am no longer happy...what's the sense of staying if am no longer happy doing my work? A healthy friendship changes and grows ‒ i.e. it is dynamic. How do we know if it is alive or not? It must be growing and changing constantly. A healthy friendship will encourage personal growth as well as allow both parties to explore safely with new ideas and experiences.
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