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MELODY D. LANDICHO
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CHAPTER I
The issues on gender sensitivity and gender mainstreaming in education remain a perennial
concern that is worth pondering upon. Various international and local concepts, laws, initiatives,
policies, and directives were formulated with the hope of rectifying the thrust on eradicating the
stereotypical gender discrimination between men and women in all sectors of society. Furthermore,
there had been constant conceptualization of theories and perspectives by gender advocates throughout
Lesson Plan Exemplars and GAD Planning and Budgeting Sessions have been conducted to ensure
inclusion of GAD in the flow of Philippine educational system (DepEd Order No.19 s.2004 DepEd
Order No.49 s.2006 and DepEd Order No. 63 s. 2012). However, despite these initiatives and the
establishment of organizational structure cascaded from the national, region, division, and school level,
GAD programs and projects have not been fully implemented. The gender mainstreaming in education
has not progressed as expected as manifested in the contents of the learning materials recently issued by
the Central Office and in the utterances and perceptions of some teachers and students.
Consequently, the researcher finds it necessary to conduct a study that will assess the
status of implementation and the problems encountered by the school administrator and
teachers in implementing Gender and Development (GAD) programs and projects in DepEd
a. Age;
b. Sex;
3. What are the problems and challenges encountered by teachers and administrator in the
4. Is there a significant difference in the extent of the implementation of GAD? Programs and
5. What action plan can be proposed in enhancing the GAD programs and projects based on the
This study will cover only the School Head and teachers of Cabay National High
Also, though the coverage of gender and development is very wide as it concerns
human total development, this study limits only to its program components applicable to the
Department of Education.
Significance of the Study
The findings of this study will have importance to the following:
Division Office. This study may be the basis for Division GAD Focal Point System (GFPS)
members to push another strategy to hasten gender mainstreaming in education and prepare a
well-defined GAD plan. They can also establish a Monitoring and Evaluation system for GAD.
Education Program Supervisors (EPS). This study may signal supervisors to include GAD
Curriculum Implementation Division (CID). This study may be the basis for inclusion of
their submission of accomplishments and monitoring and evaluation report of DepEd implemented
able to incorporate GAD programs and projects in their School Improvement Plan (SIP).
Teachers. This study may give teachers an idea to look into their Curriculum Guide /
Lesson Log and objectives that can be integrated with GAD core messages such as shared parenting,
shared home management, equality among men and women, recognizing and valuing women’s role
and contributions in nation building and preventing violence against women and their children.
Students. Through this study the students may become aware of their rights, roles and
responsibilities and they will learn how to respect the rights of other children. This may also serve as their
portal towards achieving full potential development when all forms of violence are eliminated in their
environment.
CHAPTER II
Concepts, ideas, arguments, studies, books, electronic articles and laws on the essential issues of
gender and development are widespread and can be accessed with ease. This chapter will have three main
components; the first will tackle on the comprehensive meaning of GAD, the second part will focus on
the initiatives, laws, policies and directives pertaining to GAD in the Philippines setting, and the third
part will talk about related programs and projects initiated by DepEd as part of their gender
mainstreaming in education.
Theoretical Literature
According to the National Commission on the Role of Filipino Women (NCRFW) now called
Philippine Commission on Women (PCW) as cited by Carmona (2006), societies for centuries have
practiced gender stereotyping, defined as the society’s perceptions and value systems that instill an
image of women as weak, dependent, subordinate, indecisive, emotional and submissive. Men on the
other hand, are strong, independents, powerful, dominant, decisive, and logical (NCRFW, 2001).
As societies eventually become complex however, these roles are evolving towards a direction that
contradicts the conservative gender stereotypical notions. The factors of change greatly vary that includes
the change due to the necessity to survive. The Philippines being categorized as a third world country
needs and have started to follow the change. This however, has brought the rise of an iconoclast that
continually question the change and the irony it brought to the society (Carmona, 2006). As a result the
fight for equality of rights for women became the primary concern of women’s organizations and other
gender advocates with a strong conviction to the “fundamental human rights, in the dignity and worth of
the human person, and in the equal rights of men and women” (UN-CEDAW, 2000).
Thus this brought the rise of focusing on the gender disparity. Gender refers to the specific set of
characteristics that identifies the social behavior of men and women and the relationship between them
which are socially determined and culturally defined. It changes across time, age and culture. This kind
of thinking was brought to us by our ancestors handed down from generation to generation which
entails lots of biases. One example to these was the prohibition of women in the military world. Since
gender biases exist and these biases prevent people from attaining their full potentials, development is
impeded. To ensure that explicit, implicit, actual and potential gender biases are removed, the
government came up with a 30-year plan for gender and development mainstreaming in all government
agency. This is the Philippine Plan for Gender-Responsive and Development (PPGD).
It started its implementation in 1995 and to culminate in 2025. It is expected that by the time it ends all
agencies are gender sensitive. Along with this plan is the principle that development is for all. Everyone
in society, female or male has the right to equal opportunities to achieve a full and satisfying life.
Women and men should enjoy the same conditions for realizing their full human rights and potentials to
contribute to development as well as benefit from the result (Civil Service Commission, 2005).
Several studies have proven that gender bias is manifested everywhere. One is the
study of Alba, (2005), when she noted that the problem of our educational system is the subtle
presence of sex-role stereotyping in textbooks used by our school children. The study of
Carmona, (2006) found out that men in the barangay who are supposed to be lead
implementers of GAD programs and projects have less awareness on the matter because
they were not comfortable to attend on meetings and seminars which are women’s concern.
In the study of Luongo (2012), on Teachers’ Awareness of Gender Inequity in Student Computer Usage, it came
out that teachers realized that they did possess certain gender biases that they exhibited in their classrooms and
the computer laboratory. Also, in the study of Anastasaki, et. al (2005), presented that there were some of the
persistent gender issues that cause inequities in teachers’ professional development and keep women away from
heading up to the different levels of educational administration, although the majority of teaching personnel.
Another study that proved the existence of gender biased is study of Diprete (2012), which concluded
that boys today generally underperform relative to girls in schools throughout the industrialized world. Diprete
found out that growing gender gap in educational attainment has emerged. Building on theories about gender
identity and reports from prior ethnographic classroom observations, school environment channels conceptions of
masculinity in peer culture, fostering or inhibiting boys’ development of anti-school attitudes and behavior.
Girl’s peer group by contrast, varies less strongly with the social environment in the extent to which
school engagement is stigmatized as un-feminine. As a consequence, boys are more sensitive than girls to
The prevalence of gender biases in homes, schools, workplaces, churches, and in all spheres of
society lead to violence and most of the victims are the weaker sex and the less fortunate to defend
themselves such as children, Persons with Disability (PWDs), gays and lesbians who are often victims of
15-49 has experienced physical violence since age 15, 14.4 percent of married women have
experienced physical abuse from their husbands, and more than one-third (37%) of separated or
widowed women have experienced violence, implying that domestic violence could be the reason
for separation or annulment. In terms of other abuses such as sexual violence , one in twenty –five
women aged 15-49 have experienced forced in their first sexual intercourse and one in ten women
aged 15-49 experienced sexual violence. It also came out in the same survey that emotional and
other non- personal violence comprise 23% of the married women (PCW,@www.pcw.gov.ph).
Gender and development therefore refers to” the development perspective and process that are
participatory and empowering, equitable, sustainable, free from violence, respectful to human
achieve gender equality as a fundamental value that should be reflected in the development
choices; seeks to transform society’s social, economic and political structures and questions the
validity of gender roles they ascribed to women and men; contends that women are active
agents of development and not just passive recipient of development assistance; and stresses
the need of women to organize themselves and participate in political processes to strengthen
During the Millennium Summit of the United Nations in 2000, countries formulated the
Millennium Development Goal MDG) which encompasses eight international development goals.
The third of these goals is to promote gender equality. (Philippine Statistics Authority, 2016).
The 1986 Philippine Constitution recognizes the function of women and thus stipulated a
provision on gender equality in Article II, Section 14 “The state recognizes the role of women in
nation building and shall ensure the fundamental equality before the law of women and men”
integration of women as full and equal partners of men in development and nation building and
other purposes (Chan-Robles, 2006). This act instructs government agencies to ensure that both
genders share equitability as agents and beneficiaries of development projects, and to allocate
specific funds from Official Development Assistance for women’s concerns. It gives women the
capacity to act and enter into contracts in the same way that men can, and allows women
participation in certain areas that by tradition had been completely or partially off-limits to them,
were able to insert a series of steps to institutionalize the mobilization of financial resources
intended for GAD projects. In the 1995 General Appropriations Act, the insertion of Section 27
directed agencies to place priority on gender-based projects , programs and set aside an amount
from 1995 appropriations for projects that address gender-issues or aptly called “1995-1996
The 1997 general Appropriations Act, Section 27 requires all departments, bureaus,
offices, and agencies to set aside a minimum of five percent out of their 1996 appropriations to be
used for projects designed to address gender issues in accordance with RA 7192.
The most recent law which summarizes all related laws and guidelines is the Republic Act 9710
otherwise known as Magna Carta of Women signed August 14, 2009 which encompasses all necessary
There are also some laws that are related to GAD such as Anti-Sexual Harassment or RA
7877 to protect women and men in their workplace, the RA 9262 protects women and their children
from domestic violence, the RA 7610 protects children in schools, in homes and in the community.
On GAD Mainstreaming in DepED
In cognizance with foreign and local laws, the department of Education conducted several Training
of Trainers (TOT) so as to cascade the concept of GAD down to their division offices then down to the
schools. The total package of the training is called Gender Sensitivity Training (GST). Part of each
evaluation was to count the number of employees who have undergone GST.
There were prototyped lesson plans released in 2007 integrating the Core Messages of GAD in chosen
competencies where entry is possible.
In 2012, the department ordered offices to establish the GAD Focal Point System (GFPS) to carry out
and look into the implementation in each division.(DepED Order No. 140)
Seminar-workshop on planning and budgeting was also conducted to GFPS members in the same year.
Recently, last 2014, the Child Protection Policy with Anti-bullying was formulated in each school and
submitted to DepEd higher office.
Conceptual Framework
Gender and Development came to its existence in early 90s as an aftermath of several
researches on issues of women’s concern and when women gradually become aware of their gender
status and position in different spheres of our society. According to Longwe, there are three essential
elements in gender awareness such as recognizing that women have different and special needs,
recognizing that women are disadvantaged group relative to men and recognizing that women’s
development means working towards increased equality and empowerment for women relative to
men. These issues of inequality between sexes are called gender issues.
Gender issues are deterrents to development (Carmona, 2006). Thus, it is important to address them
in development planning. This arises when people recognize that a particular instance of inequality
is wrong, unacceptable and unjust. These are difficulties that women and men experience as a result
of cultural biases- emanating from beliefs, attitudes, values, roles and characteristics attributed by
Gender and Development (GAD) focuses on the principle that development is for all.
Everyone in society male or female has the right to equal opportunities to achieve a full and
satisfying life (Forte, 2002 cited in Carmona, 2006) Women and men should enjoy the same
conditions for realizing their full human rights and potentials to contribute to development as well
In one of the seminars attended by the researcher, the staff of DepEd Human Resource
Development Service (SDD-HRDS) said that the department Instructional Materials Council
Secretariat (DepEd- IMCS) will conduct a review on contents of textbooks and other instructional
materials to eradicate gender stereotyping especially on pictures used in some textbooks. It has been
said that a problem in our educational system is the subtle presence of sex-role stereotyping in
textbooks used by our school children (Alba, 2005).
Gender and development is a perspective that encompasses a wide range of development to address the
welfare of marginalized citizens not only to women but also to the children who are powerless to protect
themselves, to the PWD (Persons with Disability), to the Third Sex who oftentimes are victims of hate
Recently, all schools in Quezon are obliged to craft a school-based Child Protection and Anti-
Bullying Policy in consonance with R.A 7610 otherwise known as the Anti-Child Abuse Law and R.A 10627.
Other related programs such as SBM WinS (Wash in School), Child –Friendly School System (CFSS),
Disaster Risk Reduction Management (DRRM), and R.A 8972 or the Solo parent Act are among of the many
department on Gender and Development (GAD) implemented with ease at School levels? No one can tell of
The awareness on GAD can be manifested in the utterances and in day to day activities of teachers
and pupils. Teachers of all levels of experience tend to interact more with male students than with female
students (Akpakwu, 2015). Consequently, it is necessary that a gender-equity program be assessed to look
into the perceptions of masculinity and feminity of children in the classroom as well as in playground
(Skelton cited in Amott, 2004 cited in Akpakwu, 2015). The assessment result would then serve as
benchmarking point for the necessary action plan. The discussion on GAD is worldwide as it concerns the
improvement of the quality of life throughout the planet to make it livable for the entire humanity.
Hypothesis
In order to have an easy understanding of this study, some terms are conceptually and
operationally defined.
Awareness. As used in this study, this pertains to teacher’s knowledge and understanding on the
Bullying. Conceptually defined as an act committed or series of acts directed towards another
student, or a series of single acts directed towards several students in a school setting or a place of
learning, which results in physical and mental abuse, harassment, intimidation, or humiliation.(DepEd
unable to fully take care of themselves or protect themselves from abuse, neglect, cruelty, exploitation or
discrimination because of physical or mental disability or condition;(R.A 7610). In DepEd, the term also
includes pupils or students who may be eighteen (18) years of age but are in school (DepEd Order No. 40,
series 2012).
Child Protection. Operationally, refers to programs, services, procedures and structures that are
intended to prevent and respond to abuse, neglect, exploitation, discrimination and violence.
DepEd Order. As used in this study, this refers to an Order from the Office of the Secretary of the
Department of Education which is to be followed by lower offices of the department strictly. Violation
development such as shared parenting, shared home management, equality among men and women,
recognizing and valuing women’s role and contributions in national building and preventing violence
against women and their children.(Handouts from the seminar attended by the researcher)
GAD Focal Person. Operationally, this denotes to a person task to facilitate and monitor the
GAD Focal Point System (GFPS). As used in this study, this pertains to a mechanism created in
DepED to ensure implementation, monitoring, and review and updating of GAD Plan. (DepED Memo
140, s. 2012)
Gender. Conceptually, this refers to the specific set of characteristics that identifies the social
behavior of men and women and the relationship between them which are socially determined and
Gender Equality. Conceptually, this refers to the principle asserting the equality of men and
women and their right to enjoy equal conditions realizing their full human potentials to contribute to
Gender Equity. Conceptually defined as the policies, instruments, programs, services, and actions
that address the disadvantaged position of women in society by providing preferential treatment and
process that are participatory and empowering, equitable, sustainable, free from violence, respectful of
achieve gender equality as a fundamental value that should be reflected in development choices. (R.A
Gender Mainstreaming. Conceptually refers to the strategy for making women’s as well as
men’s concerns and experiences an integral dimension of the design implementation, monitoring and
evaluation of policies and programs in all political, economic, and societal spheres so that women and
relationship, hidden and manifested bias in education, employment, government service, food and nutrition,
Implementation. The term is operationally defined as the extent of the application, function and
Integration. In this study, integration refers to incorporating concepts on gender and development in the
Instructional Materials. Educational resources are used to improve students’ knowledge, abilities, and
skills, to monitor their assimilation of information, and to contribute to their overall development and
teacher himself/herself.
Parent. Conceptually refers to the biological parents, step-parents, adoptive parents and the
common-law spouse or partner of the parent (DepEd Order No. 40, series 2012).
PPGD. Philippine Plan for Gender-Responsive and Development. This is a 30-year plan which
started its implementation to all government institutions and instrumentalities in 1995 and will be finished
Project. It is conceptually defined as a task or a planned program of work that requires a large
amount of time, effort, a planning to complete. In this study, this pertains to the initiative of DepEd to be
a computer to perform (Rouse, 2007). In this study, this refers to a plan of action for achieving something
that can extend to a system of services, opportunities or projects usually designed to meet social needs.
School Head. Conceptually defined as the chief executive officer or administrator of a public or
private school or learning area (DepEd Order NO. 40, series 2012). In this study, a school may either be a
(1) A woman who gives birth as a result of rape and other crimes against chastity even without a
final conviction of the offender: Provided, That the mother keeps and raises the child;
(2) Parent left solo or alone with the responsibility of parenthood due to death of spouse;
(3) Parent left solo or alone with the responsibility of parenthood while the spouse is detained or is
serving sentence for a criminal conviction for at least one (1) year;
(4) Parent left solo or alone with the responsibility of parenthood due to physical and/or mental
incapacity of spouse as certified by a public medical practitioner;
(5) Parent left solo or alone with the responsibility of parenthood due to legal separation or de facto
separation from spouse for at least one (1) year, as long as he/she is entrusted with the custody of the
children;
(6) Parent left solo or alone with the responsibility of parenthood due to declaration of nullity or
annulment of marriage as decreed by a court or by a church as long as he/she is entrusted with the
custody of the children;
(7) Parent left solo or alone with the responsibility of parenthood due to abandonment of spouse
for at least one (1) year;
(8) Unmarried mother/father who has preferred to keep and rear her/his child/children instead of
having others care for them or give them up to a welfare institution;
(9) Any other person who solely provides parental care and support to a child or children;
(10) Any family member who assumes the responsibility of head of family as a result of the
death, abandonment, disappearance or prolonged absence of the parents or solo parent. (Republic Act
8972).
Teacher. A person who by profession directly involve in teaching learning process with the
students.
Violence Against Women. It refers to any act of gender-based violence that results in, or is likely to
result in, physical, sexual, or psychological harm or suffering to women. including threats of such acts,
RESEARCH METHODOLOGY
This chapter contains the research design, research participants, research instrument, validity
and reliability of the instrument, data gathering procedures and statistical treatment of the data.
Research Design
This study will use of the Descriptive Research. Survey method in utilizing the questionnaire. In
this Survey Method Research, the participants will answer the questionnaire (Hale, 2011) that
describes the extent of implementation of GAD Programs and Projects and the problems encountered
Participants of this study will be the 28 teachers and the school head of Cabay National High
School, Tiaong Quezon School Year 2018-2019. The researcher purposively chooses these
respondents due to its accessibility to transportation and can be easily monitored as to implementation
of DepEd programs and projects. Table 1 presents the frequency and the percentage distribution of
respondents.
Table1.Frequency and Percentage Distribution of Participants
Grade 10 Teachers 6
Senior High School 4
School Head 1
TOTAL 100
Cabay National High School is composed of 28 teachers and 1 School Head. All teachers and
administrators of these five big schools will be considered participants of the study.
Research Instrument
the 28 teachers and (1) school administrator in Cabay National High School, Tiaong Quezon. The
questionnaire is composed of three parts. Part I elicits data for the participants’ profile. Part II of the
questionnaire determines the extent of implementation of the GAD Program as perceived by the
participants. Part III provides data on the problems and challenges encountered by the participants
Questions Number 1 to 6 (Part I) in the research instrument will answer Research Objective 1
while Questions Number 1-6.4 (Part II) will answer Research Objective 2. Lastly, Question Number 7
because of some revisions made, the instrument will also be subjected to further validation process
by presenting it to three experts in education using Good and Skate with an average of 3.67. The
The research instrument will be conducted to teachers who are the participants in the study to
establish the reliability of the questionnaire. Cronbach Alpha will be used to compute the reliability
score. The reliability score is .842 therefore the research instrument is reliable.
Data Gathering Procedure
After establishing the validity and the reliability of the research instrument, the researcher
will reproduce the research questionnaire. The researcher will personally distributed the survey
form to the respondents after obtaining the approval of the school authorities. The consent of the
participants will also be sought before they will be given the questionnaire. The objective and the
benefits of the study will be explained to them as well as the importance of confidentiality of their
answers.
Statistical Treatment
The statistical treatment for research Objective No.1, which is to describe the profile of the
respondents, is frequency and percentage. The mean scores will be used to determine the extent
of implementation of the programs being the second problem. Ranking will be used for Objective
No.3. The significant difference will be determined using Kruskall –Wallis and Mann Whitney.
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