Aktuelle Südostasienforschung / Current Research on South-East Asia “Still Working on it”: An Overview on the Current State of Public Activism of Women in the Philippines

This paper gives an overview on to what extent public activism in the Philippines is still gen-dered and how far it, therefore, disadvantages women. The paper consists of three major topics: (1) observations on women and the public space, (2) an outline of women and formal politics, and (3) a glimpse into gender within civil society and social movements in the Philippines