THE CHANGING STATUS OF FILIPINO WOMEN ACROSS FAMILY GENERATIONS

Demographic and economic events or outcomes play an important role in deter-mining the position of women in the family, society and economy-- namely education-• al attainment, age at marriage and occupational chojce. Philippine data from the Asian Marriage Survey of 1980 show that comparing two family generations, daughters have higher levels of education than their parents, marry later than their mothers, and are more likely to hold a job in the labor market. The education equation is estimated using a variance component model, while the age at marriage function is estimated as a proportional hazards model. The choices among three types of occupations-- white-collar, blue-collar, farming • • relative to the choice of not having a job were estimated using a multinomial logit model. The family has a profound influence on women's status as evidenced by the impact that parents have on their daughter's education, timing of marriage and labor market attainment. Relative to the fathers, mothers have a. stronger influence on status attainment through education. There is no sig-nificant ditTerence in the level of education achieved by sons and daughters partly im-plying that, on average, parents expect the net return to schooling of daughters to be comparable with that of sons. Education of the children does not significantly af-fect the timing of marriage. However, education improves the chances of obtaining non-agricultural jobs