The Exploitation of Filipino Woman Workers by the Arroyo Dispensation Continues |
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Friday, 23 May 2008 04:16 | |||
Roughly half of the 1.75-million Filipino contract workers who went abroad in six months in 2007 (from April to September) was composed of women. The National Statistics Office (NSO) said further that “one out of three (35 percent) OFWs were laborers and unskilled workers, which include domestic helpers, cleaners and manufacturing laborers.” An educated guess is that a majority of the 800,000 or so Filipino women ended up as “domestic helpers.” And how many among them will not suffer physical, sexual or emotional abuse (or worse, a combination of all three forms of abuses)? And to think that President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo is a woman herself, aside from being a mother and a grandmother at that? How many of the Overseas-Filipino woman workers left a growing family – with school kids – just to support the family members have enough to eat, have clothing on their backs, roof over their head and funds for education? And how many of these families will end up as broken homes because the husbands would be alone, and especially if unemployed or underemployed, would have lots of idle time?
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Here are excerpts of an article posted by GMANews.TV: There are more male than female OFWs - NSO BY FIDEL JIMENEZ, GMANews.TV 05/23/2008 | 08:00 PM The National Statistics Office (NSO) on Friday said that out of the 1.75 million workers deployed abroad during the period April to September, 2007, there were more males than females.
To read the news report in its entirety, please click on this link: http://www.gmanews.tv/story/97004/There-are-more-male-than-female-OFWs---NSO
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if our government cannot properly protect women overseas, then there should be divorce law in this country as millions of families are broken and not being taken care of.
people are working at the same time suffering overseas, they are also suffering from being away from their children, suffering from difficult marriages. it is more of a misery than gratitude. Being away when we are married would encourage adultery, bigamy, polygamy among citizens. There must be a law that would grant divorce on such cases. Marriage doesnt work mostly when a couple is 2000 miles away, although we have a country to support in order for it not to sink.
But some of our laws dont work for the people in a real sense, and therefore need to be changed.