GAD’s Influence on Women Literacy in the Philippines

Abstract

This research focuses on the issue regarding GAD’s influence on women literacy in the Philippines. Important issues are discussed on the factors and the contributions of GAD in women literacy rate.To address the influences of GAD on women literacy rate, tables will be presented and discussed. Contributions of GAD on women literacy rate and the factors will be analyzed and discussed. Probable contributing factors are: (1) cultural background, (2) economic factor, (3) girls are smarter than boys, (4) knowledge on population growth and mortality rate and (5) educated parents. Women having higher literacy rate than men is due to the implementation of the United Nation’s millennium goals of promoting gender equality and development.Based on the findings, it is concluded that women in most regions in the Philippines have high literacy rate, millennium development goal contributed a significant role in the high literacy rate of women, and there are five factors which contributed to the high literacy rate of women (1) cultural background, (2) economic factor, (3) girls are smarter than boys, (4) knowledge on population growth and mortality rate and (5) educated parents.