to ensure that genderbiasesand discrimination are eliminated;
b. Develop gender-responsive instruments for the evaluation of instructional materials
and curricula, including criteria about gender concepts, values, and gender-fair
language; and
c. Ensure thatevaluators and personnelin-chargeof instructional materials and curricula
are knowledgeable on gendersensitivity, peace, human rights education, and use of
gender-sensitive language.
3.
Ensure that educational institutions implement a capacity building program on gender,
peace and humanrights education for their officials, faculty and non-teaching staff and
personnel;
4.
Promote partnerships between and amongplayersof the education sector, including the
private sector, churches,andfaith groupsin the pursuit of the objectivesof this section;
5.
Encourage advertising industry andother similarinstitutions to provide free use of space
andinstallation of displays for schools, colleges and universities for campaigns to end
discrimination and violence against women; and
6.
Guarantee that educational institutions provide scholarship programs for marginalized
womenandgirls. Conditions such as age, pregnancy, motherhood,disabilities, or lack of
consentof husbandshall not be groundsfor disqualification in the grant of scholarships.
B. Enrollment of womenin non-traditional skills training in vocational andtertiary levels
shall be encouraged. Further:
1. The DepEd, TESDA, and CHED shall develop programs aimed at increasing the
enrollment of women in non-traditional skills training in vocational and tertiary
levels, and mechanisms for assessment and monitoring of compliance such as
sexdisaggregatedlist of students,tracers of graduates and thelike; and
2. Policies shall be developedto ensurethatall teachers andtrainers, regardless of sex,
ethnicity, political, social, economic andreligious status andaffiliations have equal
accessto scholarships.
C.
Expulsion and non-readmission of womenfaculty due to pregnancyoutside of marriage
shall be outlawed. No schoolshall turn out or refuse admission to a female studentsolely
on accountofher being pregnantoutside of marriage during her term in school.
The DepEd, CHED and TESDAshall monitor and ensure compliance of educational institutions
to the following:
1. Womenfaculty who becomepregnantoutsideof marriage shall not be discriminated
by reason thereof. They shall not be dismissed, separated from work, forced to
go on leave, re-assigned or transferred. They shall have access to work already
held with no diminution in rank, pay or status andshall be entitled to all benefits
accordedby law and bythe concernedlearninginstitutions;
2. No female student shall be expelled, dismissed, suspended, refused or denied of
admission,or forced to take a leave of absencein any educationalinstitution solely
on groundsof pregnancyoutside marriage during her school term. When needed,
students who are pregnantshall be accorded with a special leave of absence
from school upon advice of the attending physician, and be given an opportunity
to make up for missed classes and examinations. The sameleave benefits shall
likewise be accordedto pregnantfaculty members, and schoolpersonnel and staff
3. Pregnant students shall be assisted through available support services while in
school, such asbutnotlimited to counseling to ensure completion oftheir studies;