The IRR for SEC.

15 may be read as:

“Sec. 15. Women in the military. – The State shall pursue appropriate measures to
eliminate discrimination of women in the military, police, fire and jail, women in the
Philippine Coast guard, National Mapping and Resource Information Authority,
and other similar services, including revising or abolishing policies and practices that
restrict women from availing of both combat and noncombat training that are open to
men, or from taking on functions other than administrative tasks, such as engaging in
combat, security-related, or field operations. Women in the military shall be accorded the
same promotional privileges and opportunities as men, including pay increases,
additional remunerations and benefits, such as scholarship grants, reimbursement of
hospitalization expenses and the like, and awards based on their competency and
quality of performance, such as, but not limited to, loyalty incentive, productive
incentive, and career and self-development incentive. Towards this end, the State shall
ensure that the personal dignity of women shall always be respected as a basic
fundamental right.

Women in the military, police, fire and jail, women in the Philippine Coast
Guard, National Mapping and Resource Information Authority and other similar
services shall be provided with the same right to employment as men on equal conditions,
such as the right to the same employment opportunities, including the application of
the same criteria for selection in matters of employment; and the right to free choice
of profession and employment, the right to promotion, job security and all benefits
and conditions of service. Equally, they shall be accorded the same capacity as men to
act in and enter contracts, including marriage, and regardless of civil status, shall have
the capacity to act and enter into contracts which shall in every respect be equal to
that of men under similar circumstances.

In all contractual situations where married men have the capacity to act,
women shall have equal rights. Hence, women shall have the capacity to borrow and
obtain loans and execute security and credit arrangement under the same conditions
as men; shall have equal access to all government and private sector programs
granting agricultural credit, loans and non-material resources and shall enjoy equal
treatment in agrarian reform and insurance contracts; and married women shall
have rights equal to those of married men in applying for passport, secure visas and
other travel documents, without need to secure the consent of their spouses.

In all other similar contractual relations, women shall enjoy equal rights and
shall have the capacity to act which shall in every respect be equal to those of men
under similar circumstances.

Further, women in the military, police, fire and jail, women in the Philippine
Coast Guard, National Mapping and Resource Authority and other similar services shall
be entitled to leave benefits such as maternity leave, sick leave, vacation leave, terminal
leave and the like, as provided for by existing laws.” (emphasis and underscoring
supplied).