Since the mid 1980s, more Filipino women than men were leaving the country for various destinations abroad. Most of the women working abroad were domestic workers, 98% of them. The number of migrant women in health and medical fields, hotels, restaurants and shops and other services sector are also bigger. Most women, particularly domestic workers, are paid low wages while few get relatively higher wages. As it is, women migrants are most vulnerable as domestic workers. They have deplorable working and living conditions: they live and work in subhuman conditions, slave-like, exposed and vulnerable to sexual exploitation and other violations of human and labor rights.
Do we have effective measurements in terms of extending protection to these vulnerable women migrants? How do we reach the women OFWs to extend our support to them online? Do we have tools to reach them and for them to reach the concerned government agencies and other organizations? How do we maximize online connectivity so that we can send and receive messages to help migrants?
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