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HERSTORY The 1935 constitution required

300,000 women to vote in favor of

FILIPINO WOMEN
the right of suffrage during a

national plebiscite.
IN POLITICS
447,725 women voted yes

The Suffrage Movement

paved the way for

women to get into

politics.

WOMEN'S SUFFRAGE

Manuel L. Quezon signing the

Woman's Suffrage Plebiscite Bill

Gabriela Silang Pura Villanueva Kalaw

Carmen Planes

SPANISH PERIOD AMERICAN PERIOD FIRST WOMEN IN


Women joined
696,699 Filipinas (26%
1938 POLITICS
underground
of the total female

resistance
workforce) were engaged
Carmen Planes “Manila’s

movements where
in “industrial pursuits" Darling” was the first

some became leaders
woman to be elected to any

and acquired
This became a venue for
public office (Manila

political skills political pursuits as
Municipal Board Member)
they started joining

HISTORY She was
trade unions to fight for

their rights. 1 of the 24

women who were elected

to various positions

in the December 1937

national elections.

Women fought alongside
1987 CONSTITUTION
men again in the war.

Post-war, many of them
Cecilia Munoz Palma
attempted to join
Constitutional Commission President
politics after having

no seats under
Article II, Section 14
Japanese occupation. ” The State recognizes the role


Unfortunately, only a few were
of women in nation-building,

and shall ensure the

elected and they were

fundamental equality before the

generally pushed by familial
law of women and men.”

affiliation and elite
Through the Party-List System,

marginalized sectors are

association. represented.
NGOs and people's organizations

From 1946 to 1971,
are also institutionalized.

only 26 women were


elected into public


POST-WW2 office.

Elisa Ochoa POST -MARCOS RULE

1941 Cory Aquino became the 11th

President of the Philippines,
Elisa Ochoa
and the first female one
first woman

elected into
There was an

congress
increase in numbers

representing
of women in

Agusan congress starting

the 8th Congress
1947
Santanina Rasul
Geronima Pecson
Leticia Ramos-Shahani (1st

first woman
woman President Protempore in

senator the Senate)
Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo
Geronima Pecson Cory Aquino Anna Dominique `Nikki’ Coseteng
Miriam Defensor-Santiago

1970s onwards PRESENT

ORGANIZATIONS FOR WOMEN 1998 to 2016
The women elected into public office

As women joined the resistance movement
ranged from 16.1% to 21.44%, peaking in

against Ferdinand Marcos, more and more of
the 2016 elections
them become politicized.
2021
GABRIELA (1984) only around 23% of elected officials are

General Assembly Binding
women. Only 7 out of 24 senators are

Women for Reforms,
female.
Integrity, Equality,

Leadership and Action

umbrella organization

for women's group from

different sectors

united under anti-

fascism