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This is an excerpt of the July 2025 cover story While men and women are seen as equal before the law, and women have fought for and made spaces in many male-dominated industries in the Philippines, Filipino women still face more judgement than men. They are frequently held to different, often more exacting, standards. What’s acceptable or “natural” for most men isn’t for most women. In addition, Filipino women are often not just subject to double standards, but contradictory double standards. Babae ka, dapat hindi ganyan [You’re a woman, you shouldn’t be like that] on one hand, and babae ka, kaya ka ganyan [you’re a woman, that’s why you’re like that] on the other, sometimes at the same time. It’s 2025 and young women, like Blythe, find themselves still facing some of the same stereotypes their mothers and grandmothers faced, while trying to be inclusive and self-aware. Related: The Misstep […]
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