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Reasons Why We Need to Decriminalize Abortion

Despite the restrictive abortion law and without access to appropriate medical information, supplies and trained health providers, Filipino women, especially poor women with at least three children, have made personal decisions to induce abortion clandestinely and under unsafe conditions risking their lives and health. Asset Type: Publications Collection: Other Philippine Publications Subject: Economy, Economic development, …

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Catalyst for Change: Empowering Women and Tackling Income Inequality

This study shows empirically that gender inequality and income inequality are strongly interlinked, even after controlling for standard drivers of income inequality. The study analyzes gender inequality by using and extending the United Nation’s Gender Inequality Index (GII) to cover two decades for almost 140 countries,. The main finding is that an increase in the …

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“Hillary Clinton is the Only Man in the Obama Administration”: Dual Character, Concepts, Generics and Gender

This article tells about the remark in 2010 about Hilary Clinton as the “only man in the Obama administration.” It states that the speaker managed to derogate both the male members of the administration by deeming them not to be men, and Hillary Clinton by deeming her to be a man, and thus not really …

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