Skip to main content
Skip to sub-navigation
About USAID Our Work Locations Policy Press Business Careers Stripes Graphic USAID Home
USAID: From The American People Women in Development USAID helps bring opportunity to thousands of dairy farmers and increase earnings - Click to read this story
WOMEN IN DEVELOPMENT

Home »
Gender at USAID »
Integrating Gender
Economic Growth
Education
Legal Rights
Trafficking
Publications
Partners
Contact Us

 

Special Priorities
Philippine Fast Facts Header

The female literacy rate is 95%, second only to Japan’s in Asia, but Filipina women earn 37% to 47% less than men.

Women hold 54% of government jobs, but they dominate second-level positions, at 72%. Men outnumber them by 34% at the first level.

Six of every 10 Filipinos who leave for work abroad are women. About 100,000 to 150,000 women leave each year, most to work as domestics or entertainers.

More Fast Facts...

USAID Gender Stories

See all stories
Search


Country Snapshot: Facts on Philippines

 

ADULT LITERACY

2001: Female 95.0%; Male 95.3%
1980: Female 89%; Male 91%
Ratio of literate females to males, ages 15-24: 1.00 in 2001; 1.00 in 1990

PRIMARY SCHOOL ENROLLMENT

93% of girls in 2001
Ratio of girls to boys: 1:00 in 2000-01; 1:00 in 1990

LIFE EXPECTANCY AT BIRTH (2001)

Female 71.6; Male 67.6; 2001

MATERNAL MORTALITY (per 100,000 live births)

2000 200 (range of uncertainty120-280)
1995: 240
1990: 280

FERILITY RATE (per woman)

2000-05: 3.2
1970-75: 6.0

SHARE OF LABOR FORCE

2001: 37.9%
1980: 35%

EMPLOYMENT BY ECONOMIC ACTIVITY (2001)

52.14% of Filipino women participate in the labor force. Of them 27% work in agriculture; 13% in industry and 61% in services.

ESTIMATED EARNED INCOME (purchasing power parity in US $)

Female $2838; Male $4829; 2001

HEADS OF HOUSEHOLDS

11.3%

YEAR WOMEN RECEIVED RIGHT TO VOTE:

1937

TO STAND FOR ELECTION:

1937

YEAR FIRST WOMAN ELECTED TO PARLIAMENT:

1941

PARLIAMENTARY SEATS HELD BY WOMEN

2003: 18%; 1990: 9%

 


Visit USAID/Philippines link to the mission
Global Snapshots: Philippines Homepage
Mon, 09 Jun 2008 17:11:10 -0500
Star