Gabrielang Mandirigma : A Battle Against Misogyny

Abstract

The study conducted by the researchers aimed to uncover the experiences, challenges, and insights of feminists who battle for equality. The phenomenological design was used involving seven participants through a validated interview guide questionnaire. Themes formulated from the experiences of the feminists were aimed for gender quality, passionate about their work, and used different strategies in dealing with their advocacy. In the area of challenges were gender-fair language, wherein it is identified to be one path to achieve equality, withdrawal of women against the perpetrators, and facilitating women gatherings. Lastly, in the area of insights were the triumphs in the provision of services, changes of women, politically passage of laws, sustainability through organizing women sector S, changes in the level of knowledge, attitude, values, skills of feminist and the need of the future advocacy for sustainability to face the challenges of technology, lessons learned by the feminists through their experience and feminists' policy recommendations. The implication of this study to social work discipline is to understand the situations of women thoroughly. Social work practitioners’ interventions and approaches to use in dealing with marginalized women in society.