1. The document discusses key concepts related to gender including how gender is a social construct that varies by culture and time, as well as concepts like gender awareness, sensitivity, equality, and discrimination. 2. It describes the roles of women in pre-Hispanic Philippines, noting they had many rights and men showed them respect, as well as the role of babaylan as empowered priestesses. 3. The arrival of Spanish colonizers led to oppression of women and the imposition of patriarchal values that reduced women's roles, though some fought for social justice including through the Katipunan movement for independence.