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• 1987 Constitution Article 2 Section 14: It provides that the state acknowledged women's contributions to nation-building and must guarantee women and men have equal standing under the law

• Convention on the Elimination of all forms of Discrimination Against Women (CEDAW)


  Adopted by the United Nations in 1979 and became effective on September 3, 1981
• Philippines was the first ASEAN country to ratify CEDAW


  August 5, 1981
• Philippines signed CEDAW


  July 5, 1980
• As of May 2015, 189 states had ratified the Convention
• Women in Development and Nation- Building Act (R.A. 7192 and (RR 1992)


  It aspires to promote women's active engagement in nation-building and development by encouraging equal opportunities in politics, economics, and society
• Magna Carta for Women (Republic Act No. 9710)


  It is a comprehensive women's human rights law that aims to abolish discriminations by recognizing, protecting, fulfilling, and promoting the rights of Filipino women, particularly those from marginalized groups in society
• Hermaphroditism


  An individual who has two sexes
• Gender


  Societal and cultural roles
• Sex


  Biological identity of a person
• Sexuality


  Sexual orientation and attraction
• Congress


  • Senate
  • House of representatives
• House of representatives


  Local / Jurisdiction area
• Sex is done for reproduction
• Male


  Testosterone (XY) prostate cancer
• Female


  Estrogen's (XX) Menopause, Menstruation
• Heteronormativity


  Phenomenon of determining the normality of the behavior, whether it confirms or not to the expectations on one biological sex
• Psychosocial


  Encompasses psychological (pertains to mental process and behavior) and social (pertains to anything associated with human relationship)
• • Psychological aspect of gender and sexuality, anchors itself on the Field of Psychology. Psychology, a field of Science, which is concerned with how people think and feel, and how thoughts and feeling interact and lead the behavior.
  • Three primary psychological domains:
  • 1)Affect: refers to people's emotions and feelings
  • 2) Behavior: Pertains to people's actions. Both observable (overt) or not-readily observable (covert).
  • 3) Cognition: Or cognitive domain pertains to peoples thoughts processing such as memory, perception, and information processing.
• Sexual behavior


  Originates with what we sense, think, and feel
• Gender-related behavior


  Originates with what we sense, think, and feel
• Awareness


  • Our conscious understanding of something
  • We are in constant process towards self-awareness
  • Understanding others
• Intimacy and relationship


  • When two people recognize and become aware of each other, they decide to keep close in distance with each other's lives
  • Share their personal things
  • Allow frequency of interaction between them
• Psychosexual perspective in gender-sexuality

  Based on love, intimacy, and relationship
• Love


  A complex phenomenon characterized by an affective and cognitive inclination to someone and set a social behavior geared towards cohesion
• Intimacy


  A psychological component of love, knowing and being known by someone in a deeply personal level, emotional closeness, and connection
• Passion


  Emotive and physical component of love, dive towards sexual and attraction
• Commitment


  Decision to engage and maintain loving relationship
• Relationship


  A social bond between and among individuals manifested through communication and other forms of interaction. This band, maybe biological or determined by social contracts such as social consensus or laws