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From A Filipina: Happy International Working Women’s Day 2022

(continuation) Allowing women to build that space is only budding, yet with hope, and while we see it grow, let's "Break The Bias" in turn to shape its every verge. The struggle to fight for women's rights on the road to dismantle gender disparities might be a very rough path, but giving utmost appreciation for all the women in our lives is all-powerful. Learning more, if not all, reasons are enough to amplify women's voices, stand up alongside, and demand equality. By doing so--whoever you may be, wherever you are at, you chose to be a part of boosting sustainability and equality for the greater good. In honor of all women, let's recognize their work; bring light to the empowerment of their contribution to climate action, and as their effort never does, the celebration does not stop today. With all that said, we hope to see this message get passed along. Mabuhay ang lahat ng kababaihan! Happy International Women's Month!

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From A Filipina: Happy International Working Women’s Day 2022

Part 3: The Global Change We Need (In Her Hands)

"There is no doubt, we must ensure that climate change is a feminist issue," is only a part of what Nicola Sturgeon (Scotland's first minister) said at COP26. We cannot defend ourselves altogether from this emergency without women and girls. Since the high demand for basic necessities when the pandemic hit, 45% of women were denied access out of 13 countries surveyed. When, in truth, most of the agricultural sectors are composed of women, with 45% of the farming labor force, ranging from 20% in Latin America to 60% in the African and Asian regions. From the custodians of local culture to women's headship at constitutional levels, they help reinforce nutrition and microfinancing. Additionally, the ongoing global warming trend will hamper the education of 12.5 million girls each year (Malala Fund Report, 2021). Equipping girls with knowledge to tackle climate change and get involved in the more developing world is on hemp. For feasible victories, we need a new narrative built from the perspective of women and girls. "Driving global action and investment with a focus on financing for gender-just climate solutions, increasing women's leadership in the green economy, building women's and girls' resilience to climate impacts and disasters, and increasing the use of data on gender equality and climate," as stated by the UN Women organization. * from the launch and the very goals of Action Coalition for Feminist Action for Climate Justice last year at the Generation Equality Forum.

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From A Filipina: Happy International Working Women’s Day 2022

Part 2: Women for sustainable solutions For the celebration of International Women's Day 2022, the United Nations Entity for Gender Equality and the Empowerment of Women (UN Women) centers on the theme "Gender equality today for a sustainable tomorrow." With 80% of women disproportionately affected, being displaced among the people most vulnerable to climate change, gender inequality further complicates the intersecting factors of dilemma. Women globally rely more yet upon having lesser access to natural resources--they face extreme duties to material production while sustaining water, soil, gas, and minerals. More so, many conferences having sworn to require assistance for our minorities have failed to deliver complete accountability. Of all international development aids, merely 3% are dedicated to funding capacity buildings on the climate projects engaging women and improving gender parity. According to International Union for Conservation of Nature (2015). Women are the full-package resource, with their unique knowledge of decision-making, investing, and more participatory ventures in addressing; both gender and climate justice. Our response to climate change is imperative to our right to voice, especially for marginalized sectors. The discussion significantly impacts how taking the matter for our experiences--our consequent reality, into account by many conferences. As inflicted by conventional reforms since, apparently, it has shaped us for centuries, it is due to the term that we see women at the forefront.

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From A Filipina: Happy International Working Women’s Day 2022

Part 1: A Filipina A large part of women's history in the Philippines has been the effect of patriarchy for a long time. Foreign colonizers have brought their cultural standards defining women, and came along with these are expectations traditionally inclined on how a proper woman must look, behave, and speak. Their obligations tied to exemplifying each duty in the house, an ideal daughter, a wife, a mother--graceful and timid in the presence of God, remaining decent until it was time to vent in marriage and fulfill the needs of their husband and children. The said ideologies infused with the Filipino societal norm we know of today. Intuitively, the characterization of political commissions is the men's work, out of women's demeanor; the educational system led by friars was considered another barricade. Still, with today's familiarity with the outdated narrative, women depending on men, the loops of emphasizing a Filipina lacking character to display her rights to rulership--and rightly among receiving status to be thorough as a self-made woman--would continue circling back in. To this effect, in the Philippines, it marks the inception of a thick culture: perceiving women as the more inferior sex.