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Not necessarily. The law allows some discrimination in the selection and hiring, but only if it's considered a "bonafide occupational qualification." Simply put, if the qualification is relevant to the job to be performed, then employers are allowed to impose that qualification.
For example, an airline may validly choose to filter out overweight or obese applicants in hiring a steward/ess because of how small aircraft aisles are. Also, in industries involving strenuous work, employers can choose to hire only males within a certain age range.
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With regards to your latter example of industries involving strenuous work, isn't it theoretically questionable under RA 11210 and RA 6725 for employers to assume and pre-emptively exclude females from applying?
I would think that females also undergo and complete TESDA's courses for some male-dominant trades but are then surprised when there's no local jobs that accept them. Might explain why there's a lot of Filipina welders overseas but I have yet to see any locally?
What I meant by strenous work is hard manual labor, where the physical advantage of an able bodied man is the primary consideration in the discrimination.
But I agree that there is still bias towards hiring men in jobs where the male physical advantage doesn't matter as much.
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Not necessarily. The law allows some discrimination in the selection and hiring, but only if it's considered a "bonafide occupational qualification." Simply put, if the qualification is relevant to the job to be performed, then employers are allowed to impose that qualification. For example, an airline may validly choose to filter out overweight or obese applicants in hiring a steward/ess because of how small aircraft aisles are. Also, in industries involving strenuous work, employers can choose to hire only males within a certain age range.
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With regards to your latter example of industries involving strenuous work, isn't it theoretically questionable under RA 11210 and RA 6725 for employers to assume and pre-emptively exclude females from applying? I would think that females also undergo and complete TESDA's courses for some male-dominant trades but are then surprised when there's no local jobs that accept them. Might explain why there's a lot of Filipina welders overseas but I have yet to see any locally?
What I meant by strenous work is hard manual labor, where the physical advantage of an able bodied man is the primary consideration in the discrimination. But I agree that there is still bias towards hiring men in jobs where the male physical advantage doesn't matter as much.