Gender and Society

1. Elliette
P E R S E N T A T I O N T E M P L A T E
Stride of the
Filipino Women
Across Time

2. Learning Outcomes:
• Discuss women‘s role during the Pre-colonial
Philippines.
• Identity salient changes of women‘s role during the
Spanish occupation.
• Explain the role of women during the American
regime and how it drastically changes throughout
the Japanese occupation.

3. Women during the Pre-colonial Philippines
• The women of the pre-Hispanic era
were given importance.
• They could even hold high
characters in communities like
healers, priestesses.
• They could even handle leadership
roles and fight as warriors.

4. Women during the Pre-colonial Philippines
• Women had the right to inherit
property and they also had
important parts in business and
trading.
• They controlled the operations of
transactions because their
husbands were not allowed to
barter unless their wives approved.

5. Women during the Pre-colonial Philippines
• Men and women were treated
equally, they had equal rights.

6. Women during the Pre-colonial Philippines
• The babaylan was a 'powerful' and
influential position held by women
in pre-colonial society.
• These women were revered
as priestess- poets or leaders in the
spiritual and cultural lives of the
people.

7. Women during the Pre-colonial Philippines
• The legendary Lubluban, regarded
as the great granddaughter of the
first man and woman, was the
Philippines first Visayan lawgiver
who hails from the islands of
Panay.
• Lubluban helped the datus write
and promulgate laws and efficiently
tackled all concerns regarding ritual
practices, properties, and
inheritance.

8. • The glorious years of the women
were destroyed when the Spanish
arrived during the 16thcentury.
• From men and women being equal,
women were turned into objects of
suppression.
• The ideal woman for the Spaniards
is someone who is overly religious,
submissive, and obedient.
Women during the Spanish Occupation

9. • Women were no longer
allowed to hold high
positions and participate in
political activities.
• She was even snatched of
her right to express her
thoughts being instructed to
stay within the shadows with
her lips sealed.
Women during the Spanish Occupation

10. The four Decades of American Regime
• During the American period,
Filipino women were no longer
secluded within the narrow
confines of the home.
• By the time of the American
occupation, a significant
number of Filipino women had
become educated.

11. The four Decades of American Regime
• The Filipino women during
the American occupation
started taking small steps
towards empowerment but
were still too cautious to
disrupt the traditional roles
of women in the family.

12. The four Decades of American Regime
• In the hope of further
shedding off their status as
second-class citizens, these
women enjoined and
organized other women to
fight for the right to
suffrage.
• The Suffragist Movement
provided inroads for women
to get into politics

13. The four Decades of American Regime
• The role of women in society
during the American regime
showed their evolving
presence in the economy.
• The significance of this is
that women were able to
get the opportunity to break
away from traditional
gender-related roles.

14. The Japanese Occupation
• The Japanese did not only
control politics and economics
during the war years, they
likewise prepared a cultural and
educational plan to remold the
Filipinos way of thinking which
they believed to have lost its
Asian identity because of
Western colonizers.

15. The Japanese Occupation
• Japan advocated the home as
woman’s place, and motherhood
as the highest virtue but this
pretentious protection proved
empty for the Japanese
committed the most atrocious
crimes against countless Filipino
women.

16. The Japanese Occupation
• Throughout the Philippines more
than a thousand Filipinos,
composed of mothers, and girls
some as young as 10,
were imprisoned, forcibly taken
as "comfort women", and kept
in sexual slavery for Japanese
military personnel during the
occupation.

17. • Women played significant economic
roles in the community. They did not rely
on men for survival.
• They were, instead, men’s indispensable
partners in production.
• Women should be valued and respected.

18. THANK YOU!