Abstract
Gender equality through women empowerment has been a global advocacy since the early 20th century. This paper attempts to forecast the participation of women in politics, especially in the Philippines. Data from 1998 to 2016 on the number of women joining the Philippine government (elected) were extracted from the Philippine Statistics Authority. The data were used to denote the cumulative adopters by tailoring it to the Bass diffusion model by means of the Bass Forecasting Spreadsheet. It was found out that the adoption rate in 2040 will be around 37% in the present population. This means that women role in politics is expected to reach its peak based on the first data in 42 years. The use of this model delivered an idea that the growing nature of women in the politics either from local and national positions can seemingly sustain overtime. Further, it denotes that even in the increasing involvement of women in politics, there will be a time that it reaches its saturation point. In the same vein, even with the saturation, the years mark and uncover the significant contributions of women in the politics. Hence, it is not the quantity of women in the Philippine politics that matters, but rather the kind of service they can provide to uplift the quality of Filipino lives.
Highlights
The role of women in the country has been acknowledged by the Philippine Constitution such as in promoting the gender equality among men and women and abiding the law by stating the significant contributions of women in nation building
Intensive and serious propagation of this goal—Gender Equality has alleviates the participation of women which have been felt in politics but in different functions and roles in the society that merits on their contributions and attributions to the growing population of the world
The participation of women increases in politics, it is in the same way telling that the quality of life of the people progressed (Voden et al, 2010)
Summary
The role of women in the country has been acknowledged by the Philippine Constitution such as in promoting the gender equality among men and women and abiding the law by stating the significant contributions of women in nation building. The augmentation of the functions of women in the society as reflected in giving fair and equal footing in making decision and policy either in government or private entities has been covered in Section 11 of the Magna Carta of Women (MCW). For the last two decades, the growth and representation of women in government and politics in the global arena has dramatic increased from 11.8 percent in 1998 to 17.8 percent in 2008 to 23.5 percent in 2018 (womendeliver.org, 2018). According to the National Democratic Institute, Africa (13.7% to 19.8%) and Arab state region (6.1% to 14.7%) have shown sky rocketed increase in the involvement of women in the parliaments. The astonishing increase of the women in parliaments did not remarkably show that women have achieved the “critical mass” of representing the world of politics in the globe. Sustainable Development Goals of 2030 fortifies Gender Equality in ending all forms of discrimination against women and giving equal access to opportunity in the world
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