POLYTECHNIC UNIVERSITY OF THE PHILIPPINES

STA. MESA, MANILA

COLLEGE OF ENGINEERING
Department of Computer Engineering

SALAMAT, RUEL O.
BSCOE 2-3
Life and Works of Rizal – GEED 10013
Prof. Jacinto R. Valila Jr.

Critically appraised Rizal’s views on women in

nation-building. Examine closely how Rizal
instigated the women of Malolos to rise and take
an active role in society.

Rizal’s Letter to the Women of Malolos

The fighting spirit displayed by the youthful women of Malolos impressed Jose Rizal
greatly. he expresses great joy and satisfaction through his letters and works. It's indeed clear
from this member of Dr. Jose Rizal's communication that his eventual end was for ladies to
retain identical educational equivalency with men. Preliminarily, youthful girls were not
transferred to the high academy because it had been extensively assumed that they were going
to be taken as women and live events with the children. Dr. Jose Rizal, on the other hand,
emphasizes the value of rationalism also because of the correct education for both boys and
girls.

Currently, women have come more independent and likely to be more aggressive than
men. Women moment can do whatever they want because they've freedom, which wasn't likely
in the past when women were only in the house and kept looking for their homes. Women's
current situation within the Philippines is stylishly described as containing sharp contradictions
In terms of educational, professional, political, and legal advancement, Filipino women could
also be considered as the most advanced compared to women in other nations. Still, they also
face violence, profitable disadvantages, plant demarcation, exploitation as migrant workers and
prostituted women, and relegation as a result of intermittent wars in conflict-affected areas.

Dr. Jose Rizal's perspective of a lady being permitted the correct education came to a
reality. We are not any farther disrated to the part of retainers, but rather reach our full
eventuality. We must not take this right as a right because our ancestors worked hard to
negotiate it. We must not complain about the assignments we admit from the academy, but else,
be thankful for the prospect that has been handed to us. this could be frequently a formerly- by-
a-lifetime occasion that must not be and permit us to seize this occasion to point our worth to
the rest of the world. Its problems addressed in Rizal's written form"The Women of Malolos" are
the gap between men and girls, slavery done by the Spaniards thanks to ignorance, religious
persuasions brought by the priest, the part of maters within the family, despotism of some
thanks to poltroonery and negligence on an element of others, unreligious acts of the friars
towards the Filipinos, Spaniard's restricting the indoctrination of the Filipinos. The friars took
advantage of this youth's liberality and gentleness and gasconaded about it to their fellow
Spaniards. However, nothing would dare to touch or kill a lady, If only Filipinas were nearly just
like the Stark women who have power over their men. Rizal wanted to open his people's eyes
and avert them from being eyeless to freedom. Ignorance was the conception explanation for
slavery during their time, which we mustn't allow this to be again. He did not want its people to
be without faith, but he did want them up-to-date in mind the exploitations distributed by the
friars in their blankets.

Faith entails just soliciting and wearing religious symbols. In reality, it's a Christian way
of life with good morals and mores. These characteristics appear to be fading within the way
Filipino women conduct themselves in recent times. Mothers constantly forget their places in
raising their children because they're preoccupied with earning capitalist for the family to
condense their hubby's income. Although there's nothing wrong with working hard for the
welfare of one family, one's life should be balanced.

I must say that Rizal's letter to the women of Malolos marks the morning of women's
commission toward a brighter future. There is no discrimination in how women perform in
everyday life because we are each equal and women can do everything men can do. This is the
time for women to be more upbeat and delivered in their quotidian lives

Still, I consider them to be in an equal or indeed a lesser position than I'm myself If we
are talking about women. A woman is able of dealing with situations that a man is unfit to handle,
and I believe that she has the same right to assert her position in society as men do. We do not
regard a woman as just a woman, but rather as a woman, and we appreciate her for doing so.
We could say that Jose Rizal’s input and takes on this content can be extensively seen currently.
Women are now ever and can be considered free from the social constructs that limit them
ahead. It took time for society to accept it, and we could say that it's still a work under progress
in the current generation, but it's a big step for the commission of women and the growth of the
whole society, and Dr. Jose Rizal would presumably be proud of it.