More role models

study shows. But do we have the structures in place to help them? Women have the double burden of having to go to work, but then they have all this, unpaid labor that they

With all these issues still at hand, there’s a call to have more empowered women in different fields that other Filipinas can look up to. The Filipina Forward study also shows that 59 percent of the participants want to see more films with empowered female leads, while 26 percent of those surveyed left an abusive relationship after exposure to these role models.

“As a strong financially independent woman, what are the steps that you’re taking on in order to make sure that women who are different from you have the same access to this financial security? To have the same

‘The image or the myth of the Maria Clara was a myth perpetuated by the Spaniards in order to subjugate these strong powerful women who existed before they arrived.’

access to religious freedom? To be able to express?” Samantha asked. “What are you doing to help queer women? Disabled women? Yung mga babaeng nasa laylayan na walang (Those indigent women who have no) purchasing power? These are the questions I ask myself, every day.”

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