LEGAL BASES AND

POLICIES ON
GENDER
MA. EXPEDITA B. ARTIAGA
ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR IV
REPUBLIC ACT NO. 9262

• The Anti-Violence Against Women and their Children

“an act defining against women and their children,
providing for protective measures for victims, prescribing
therefore, and for other purposes”.
REPUBLIC ACT NO. 9710

• MAGNA CARTA OF WOMEN “a comprehensive women’s human

rights law that seeks to eliminate discrimination through the
recognition, protection, fulfillment, and promotion of the rights of
Filipino women, especially those belonging in the marginalized
sectors of the society”.
REPUBLIC ACT NO. 7192

• “Women in Development and Nation Building Act”, which is

promoting the integration of women as full and equal partners of
men in development and nation building and for other purpose”.
RA 7192 SECTION 2 STATES THE FOLLOWING:

• 1. A substantial portion of official development assistance funds received from foreign

governments and multilateral agencies and organizations shall be set aside and utilized by
the agencies concerned to support programs and activities for women

• 2. All government departments shall ensure that women benefit equally and participate
directly in the development programs and projects of said department, specifically those
funded under official foreign development assistance, to ensure the full participation and
involvement of women in the development process; and
• 3. All government departments and agencies shall review and revise all their regulations,
circulars, issuances and procedures to remove gender bias therein.
To ensure the implementation of this RA.7192 , the National Economic Development
authority (NEDA) with the assistance of the National Commission on the Role of Filipino
Women, ensure that the different government departments, including its agencies and
instrumentalities which, directly or indirectly, affect the participation of women in national
development and their integration therein, shall:
1. Formulate and prioritize rural or countryside
development programs or projects, provide income and
employment opportunities to women in the rural areas and
thus, prevent their heavy migration from rural to urban or
foreign countries;
 2. Include an assessment of the extent to which their programs
and/or projects integrate women in the development process and of
the impact of said programs or projects on women, including their
implications in enhancing the self-reliance of women in improving
their income;
3. Ensure the active participation of women and women’s
organizations in the development programs and/or projects
including their involvement in the planning, design,
implementation, management, monitoring and evaluation
thereof;
 4. Collect sex-disaggregated data and include such
data in its program/project paper, proposal or strategy;
5. Ensure that programs and/or projects are designed so that the percentage of
women who receive assistance is approximately proportionate to either their
traditional participation in the targeted activities or their proportion of the
population, whichever is higher. Otherwise, the following should be stated in the
program/project paper, proposal or strategy;
a. The obstacle in achieving the goal;
b. The steps being taken to overcome those obstacles; and
c. To the extent that steps are not being taken to overcome those obstacles, why they are not
being taken.
 6. Assist women in activities that are of critical significance
to their self-reliance and development.
REPUBLIC ACT NO. 11210- 105- DAY
EXPANDED MATERNITY LEAVE LAW

• .An increasing the maternity leave period to one hundred

five (105) days for female workers with an option to
extend for an additional thirty (30)days without pay, and
granting an additional fifteen (15) days for solo mothers,
and for other purposes.
• Sec. 2. It is the declared policy of the State under Article
XIII, Section 14 of the 1987 Constitution to protect and
promote the rights and welfare of working women, taking
into account their maternal functions, and to provide an
enabling environment in which their full potential can be
achieved.
• Article II, State Policies, Section 12 of the 1987 Constitution
provides that the State recognizes the sanctity of family life and
shall protect and strengthen the family as the basic autonomous
social institution and that it shall equally protect the life of the
mother and the life of the unborn from conception. Moreover,
Sections 17 and 22 of Republic Act No. 9710, otherwise known as
the Magna Carta of Women”, provides for women’s rights to health
and decent work.
• To achieve these, and in recognition of women’s maternal function
as a social responsibility, the State shall institutionalize a
mechanism to expand the maternity leave period of women
workers.
• This will provide them with ample transition time to regain health
and over-all wellness as well as to assume maternal roles before
resuming the paid work. The Act and this Rules are consistent with
local and international legal instruments that protect and promote
the rights of women.
REPUBLIC ACT 8187- PATERNITY LEAVE ACT OF 1996

• An Act Granting paternity leave of seven days with full pay to

all married male employees in the private and public sectors
for the first four (4) deliveries of the legitimate spouse with
whom he is cohabiting. The male employee applying for
paternity leave shall notify his employer of the pregnancy of
his legitimate spouse and the expected date of such delivery.
• For purposes of this Act, delivery shall include childbirth or any
miscarriage.
• Paternity leave-refers to the benefits granted to a married male
employee allowing him not to report for work for seven( 7) days but
continues to earn the compensation therefor, on the condition that
his spouse has delivered a child or suffered a miscarriage for
purposes of enabling him to effectively lend support to his wife in
her period of recovery and/or in the nursing of the newly-born child.
RA. 3815

• Anti-Rape Law Anti-Rape Law of 1997

- An Act Expanding the definition of the Crime of Rape,
Reclassifying the same as a crime against persons,
amending for the purpose as amended, otherwise known
as the Revised Penal Code , and for other purposes.
RAPE VICTIM ASSISTANCE AND PROTECTION ACT OF 1998

• An Act Providing Assistance and Protection for Rape

Victims, Establishing for the Purpose a Rape Crisis
Center in Every Province and City, Authorizing the
Appropriation of Funds
RA 9208 ANTI-TRAFFICKING IN PERSONS ACT

• Anti-Trafficking in persons

• Recruitment, obtaining, hiring, providing , offering,

transportation, transfer, maintaining, harboring, or receipt
of persons with or without the victim’s consent or
knowledge, within or across national borders.
RA 11313 Safe Spaces Act or Anti Bastos Law
RA 7877 The Anti Sexual Harassment Act of 1995
RA 9995 Anti photo and video voyeurism
RA 10627 Anti Bullying Act of 2013
POLICY ON SEXUAL HARASSMENT AND PHOTO AND VIDEO
VOYEURISM

Approved through BOR Resolution No. 03, S. 2019

• Section 7. Composition on CODI

• In Sexual Harassment cases, the complaint shall be filed with the CODI.
• In an Education Training- Related Sexual Harassment the University CODI is
composed of the following
1. As Chairperson, on a rotating and case by case basis, the Vice President for Academic
Affairs(VPAA), Vice President for Administration and Finance, Vice President for
Research, Extension , Production, Entrepreneurship and Development (VPREPED), or
Vice President for External and International Linkages(VPEIL)

2. The Faculty President of the concerned campus:

3. The President of the Student Council of the concerned campus; and
4. The GAD Focal Person
• In the absence of duly elected members from the faculty, and the non-
teaching rank-and-file employees, the University President shall appoint
two(2) ad hoc members of the Committee to represent the faculty and non-
teaching rank-and –file employees.
• However, if the complainant or the person complained of in a sexual
harassment is a member of the CODI, the University President may assign
a replacement( a temporary, as in the case maybe) to the said member.
SECTION 8. FUNCTIONS OF THE CODI

a. Receive complaints of sexual harassment;

b. Investigate Sexual Harassment complaints including Preliminary
Investigation in accordance with the prescribed procedure; and
c. Submit a report of its findings with corresponding recommendation
to the University President for decision.
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