Often cited as the first Filipina physician, surgeon and obstetrician, Honoria Acosta-Sison was born in Calasiao, Pangasinan, in December of 1888. She was born into a time of upheaval and resistance, ...

What did it mean to be a woman—and the wife of the Philippine president no less—during the pivotal Commonwealth era of the early 20th century? What were the burdens she bore, the compromises she made, ...

When famed Feminist Carrie Chapman Catt saw that the fight for woman suffrage in the U. S. was about to be won. she journeyed to the Philippine Islands in 1913 and publicly proposed suffrage for her ...

On a recent quiet afternoon, the aroma of freshly baked empanadas filled Zeni Mallari’s Peninsula home, where they were being served for merienda, a Filipino-style afternoon snack. Over a fresh pot of ...

Fides Lim never met a prickly prison guard she couldn’t stand up to. At the gates of the Correctional Institute for Women (CIW), Lim, of the political prisoner support group Kapatid, argued with all ...