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CHR Commissioner Karen Gomez-Dumpit, Focal Commissioner on Gender and Women’s Rights, said in a statement that gender discriminatory norms have sadly been ingrained in Filipino culture.
She said these norms have led some people to believe that women should stay at home and take care of the children while men work, or that catcalling and sexual harassment in the workplace are acceptable, among many other things.
She lamented how the misogynistic culture in the country became worse over the past few years, with public servants themselves making “verbal attacks laced with sexism.”
Even women leaders are discriminated against, and their positions and capabilities are often discredited, she pointed out.