MAGNA CARTA OF WOMEN

(R.A. No. 9710)

 Magna Carta
• Magna – Latin term for great
• Carta – means letter, chart or map
• (Literally means great letter)

• Magna Carta (Merriam-Webster):

• 1. A charter of liberties to which the English barons forced

King John to give his assent in June 1215 at Runnymede.

• 2. A document constituting a fundamental guarantee of

rights and privileges.
 STATE POLICY
Recognizing that the economic, political, and socio
cultural realities affect women’s current condition, the
State affirms the role of women in nation building and
ensures the substantive equality of women and men.

It shall promote empowerment of women and pursue

equal opportunities for women and men and ensure
equal access to resources and to development results
and outcome.

Sec. 2, RA 9710
 STATE POLICY
• Further, the State realizes that equality of men
and women entails the abolition of the unequal
structures and practices that perpetuate
discrimination and inequality.

• To realize this, the State shall endeavor to

develop plans, policies, programs, measures, and
mechanisms to address discrimination and
inequality in the economic, political, social, and
cultural life of women and men.
 MAGNA CARTA OF WOMEN
• The MCW is a comprehensive women's human
rights law that seeks to eliminate discrimination
through the recognition, protection, fulfilment and
promotion of the rights of Filipino women.
 SALIENT FEATURES OF MCW
• Increasing the number of women in third level
positions in government to achieve a fifty-fifty (50-
50) gender balance within the next five years

• the composition of women

in all levels of development
planning and program implementation
will be at least 40 percent;
 SALIENT FEATURES OF MCW
• Leave benefits of two (2) months with full pay
for women employees who undergo surgery
caused by gynecological disorders,

Condition: continuous aggregate employment

service of at least 6 months for the last
12 months.
 SALIENT FEATURES OF MCW
Non-discrimination in employment in the field of
military, police and other similar services
promotional privileges and opportunities as their
men counterpart, including pay increases, additional
benefits, and awards,
based on competency
and quality of
performance.
 SALIENT FEATURES OF MCW
• Provision for equal access and elimination of
discrimination in education, scholarships, and
training.
• expulsion, non-readmission, prohibiting enrolment,
and other related discrimination of
women students and faculty due
to pregnancy out of marriage
shall be outlawed.
 SALIENT FEATURES OF MCW
• Non-discriminatory and non-derogatory
portrayal of women in media and film to raise
the consciousness of the general public
through the strategic use of mass media;
 ///salient features of MCW

• Portrayal of Women

“You could only get confidence

when you drink beer”
“Only real men drink colt 45”
 SALIENT FEATURES OF MCW
• Equal status given to men and women on the
titling of the land and issuance of stewardship
contracts and patents.
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• guaranteeing substantive rights

• ensure the substantive equality of men and

women" and mandates the State to take steps
to review, amend or repeal existing laws that are
discriminatory towards women.
 MAGNA CARTA OF WOMEN
• The Government, shall fulfil these duties through the
development and implementation of laws, policies,
regulatory instruments, administrative guidelines,
and other appropriate measures.

• establish mechanisms to promote the coherent and

integrated implementation of the MCW and other
related laws and policies to effectively stop
discrimination against Filipino women.
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• The MCW mandates all

government offices, to
adopt gender
mainstreaming as a
strategy for
implementing the law
and attaining its
objectives.
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• It also mandates
a) planning, budgeting, monitoring and
evaluation for gender and
development;

b) the creation and/or strengthening of

gender and development focal
points; and

c) the generation and maintenance of

gender statistics and sex-
disaggregated databases to aid in
planning, programming and policy