Business Ethics and Social Responsibility

Module 5
Submitted to: Ms. Jhelie Fidel
Submitted by: Marinel Vergara

'Women in positions of
power had to work harder
than men'
By CNN Philippines Staff
Published Mar 10, 2020, 11:07:12 PM

Metro Manila (CNN Philippines, March 10)

— More and more women are rising to
positions of power—but only after
overcoming the persisting hurdle that is
gender inequality.

In CNN Philippines’ Politics as Usual on

Tuesday, Chaye Cabal-Revilla, Senior Vice
President and Group Controller of
telecommunications company PLDT,
stressed that women in the workplace
generally have to put in more work while
climbing the rungs to senior leadership.

“We are in our positions right now

because we earned it—we worked hard for it,” Cabal-Revilla said. The top
executive added that women in the workplace are generally “more detailed,
more patient, and have better insight.”

Cabal-Revilla also recounted how she felt the need to challenge herself and push
the boundaries of traditionally-male work by “going down underground cables,
learning how to troubleshoot and splice copper” herself despite working in
finance.

Her sentiment was echoed by Director of the General Santos City Police Colonel
Portia Manalad who said that women are not able to move up into higher
positions as quickly as men. “Everything we have right now, we deserve,” she
said.

e National Police Academy in 1995. She is also the first female to work as police
director in Cotabato City. “Very challenging kasi maging babae especially dito sa
PNP na talagang ngayon palang nagkakaroon ng babae na umaakyat sa senior
leadership,” Manalad said.

Meanwhile, Pediatrics Infectious Disease Specialist Dr. Lulu Bravo stressed that
women have to juggle more demands apart from work, including having to do
most of the caregiving and household responsibilities in the family.

“In our culture, it’s always a thing that…. the woman has that extra job to ensure
that the family is whole.”

A recent study by the United Nations Development Programme found that

despite remarkable progress in some areas of the world, 9 out of 10 people
globally are still biased against women. This discrimination is manifested in
various aspects of women’s lives, including work. Findings, which contain data
from over 80 percent of the world population, revealed that 40 percent feel that
men have more right to a job when jobs are scarce. Half of the world’s men and
women also feel that men make better political leaders.

“Women today are the most qualified in history, and newer generations of women
have reached parity in enrollment in primary education,” the study read. “But the
transition from the education system to the world of paid work is marked by a
gender equality discontinuity associated with women’s reproductive roles.”

Despite the fact that we are living in the twenty first century, stereo types are still intact to our
culture, in fact, men dominant work around the world are still biased against women. Despite the
innovations and great contributions of women in different field, men find women not worthy in
positions for power as they still belief that women must stay at home and take care of the family.
In addition men cannot handle their ego thinking that women can lead and make progress on
what field they are in especially in PNP a field of expertise that requires strength, cardiovascular
endurance and such.
Women needs to work harder than men to gain the positions of power and pushed their self to
the boundaries on traditionally male work to attain the certain level where you get the power and
authority. Colonel Portia Manalad a Director of the General Santos City Police said that
women are not able to move faster to higher ranks than men on duty the, story of her progress
on her position is living prove that women can also do what men can do .
Discrimination is a common ethical issue in a workplace especially for LGBTAQ+ and women:
As shown in the first page of my written report this is focused on women discrimination on men
dominant work. The written article above is one of the common ethical issue and challenges that
a firm face while working nor operating. Discrimination on a work place commonly happen that
is why organization and institutions are establish to protect to who are in need of it. The
government establish laws to protect its citizen to those and takes law full actions and
responsibility to who ever needs to take it.