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Special Feature

“Order ni Mrs.” (the Mrs. Commands) is a catchphrase in the advertising
world. Even shallow jokes such as husbands developing “asthma” (sounds
like “ask ma” –wife) syndrome after getting married, or husbands banished
to sleep outside the “kulambo” (mosquito net) after displeasing the wives,
portray women as having the upper-hand in the husband-wife equation.
Philippine history features several women as leaders and heroic figures.
Who could forget the unprecedented move of the twenty-one women of
Malolos who fought for equality of education and petitioned the Spanish
Governor-General for the establishment of the school for women in the
late 1880s? Or the heroism of Gabriela Silang, who was hung by her
enemies for leading the rebellion against Spain, began by her husband? Or
the vision of Helena Benitez, who founded the Philippine Women’s
University, the first Filipino university exclusively for women.

In the Filipino story of creation, women did not
come from men, as is the story in the Old
Testament that a woman named Eve came from
the ribs of a man named Adam. Instead, the
first woman sprung full-blown from a cylinder of
bamboo simultaneously with man. A great
primeval bird, pecking at a bamboo grove,
released them from the state of non-being. Both
man and woman stepped together into life,
hand-in-hand, equal and bound to each other by
a collective nature and common emergence,
each one with a particular attribute to complete
the other, the man called Malakas (strong) and
the woman called Maganda (beautiful).

The elements of legend and fact, history and
sociology, the past and the present reveal the
Filipino women not as competitors but as partners
working alongside their men. Do not be fooled by IWCPI District 380 dedicates this nascent issue of
Wheel of Service to all the kindhearted Filipino
the mayuming (gentle) Filipino women, because
they participate in activities that influence their women serving the marginalized sectors of their
communities under the banner of the Inner
homes, communities, and social life. They take
part in decision making, earning, and managing Wheel Clubs of the Philippines, Inc. The District
the income for their families. They are educated salutes and reveres our members who succeed on
their own and thrive with the respect,
and learn the same skills as men. They take
leadership roles in revolutionary movements that acknowledgment, love, and praise from their men
and families for all the good they do. Let us
affect national policies and serve in private and
public capacities to attend to the social and celebrate us women in the IWCPI by continuing to
economic needs of the country and impart their support each other and acknowledging each
other’s accomplishments, ever remembering the
perspective to the entire world. The Filipino
women are strong and an active force in motto that binds us together Selflessness in
Friendship. Mabuhay ang Filipina! Mabuhay ang
Philippine society.
District 380!

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