Hontiveros slams Tesda chair over women’s role

Published by rudy Date posted on March 16, 2017

By: Maila Ager, INQINQUIRER.net, Mar 16, 2017

Akbayan Senator Risa Hontiveros on Thursday slammed the head of the Technical Education and Skills Development Authority (Tesda) for saying that women “don’t have time anymore for their spouses because they are powerful.”

“We are not your servants,” Hontiveros, chair of the Senate committee on women, said in a statement.

“On behalf of Filipino women, especially those who work abroad, I’d like to remind the Director-General that our empowerment does not come at men’s expense,” she said, referring to Tesda Director-General Guiling Mamondiong.

 

Mamondiong was earlier quoted in the media as saying that if he had his way, he would not send women abroad to work because he believed it was “another form of slavery.”

“Hindi bale kalalakihan sa atin mapunta sa ibang bansa, pwede naman rin mag-asawa doon. Hindi ba? Pero yung kababaihan natin dito, pinapadala sa ibang bansa para gawing alipin lamang (It’s okay for the men to go abroad, since they can marry there. Isn’t that right? But our women, they are being sent abroad to become slaves),” he said.

“When the women are empowered they become more powerful not just in the workplace but [also] at home. Halos wala na silang oras sa kanilang mga asawa dahil sila nga ay powerful. (They don’t have time anymore for their spouses because they are powerful),” the Tesda chief added.

But Hontiveros said Mamondiong might have an outdated view of women and gender-relations.

“I respectfully ask the Director-General to clarify his remark and his views on women. It is not within men’s rights to dictate what role women should play whether it is at home or work,” she said.

The senator also pointed out the irony of Mamondiong’s remark while the country is celebrating the Women’s Month.

Mamondiong has clarified that it was only his view.

“It seems that we still have a long way to go, not only in educating our people but also our public officials on gender sensitivity and equality,” Hontoveros said.

“The TESDA chief’s sexist outlook reinforces societal structures that deny women our rights and the implementation of policies that are oppressive to us,” she added. MA/CBB/rga

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