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He also taught world literature at Philippine Women's University (2000–2001) and Southeast Asian Studies in the Asia-Pacific Studies Program at the University of Asia & the Pacific (2001–2002). From 2004 to 2006, he was an acting assistant professor and later an assistant professor in the Department of Comparative Literature at the ...
In 1919 during the American colonial era, the Philippine Women's University was established as the Philippine Women's College (PWC) by a group of Filipino women consisting of Clara Aragon, Concepcion Aragon, Francisca Tirona Benitez, Paz Marquez Benitez, Carolina Ocampo Palma, Mercedes Rivera and Socorro Marquez Zaballero with the assistance of Filipino lawyer José Abad Santos, who drafted ...
She was elected as its president in 1920. During the Japanese occupation period she was appointed by then President José Laurel as head of the Women's Bureau. When the war ended she came back to the Philippine Women's University where she served as its president until her retirement in 1965. [1] [3] Francisca was also an active civic leader.
The Jose Abad Santos Memorial School (JASMS) is the outcome of the many years of work that Doreen Barber Gamboa had with children. She was greatly inspired by Francisca Tirona Benitez who was a co-founder and then President of the Philippine Women's University (PWU), the first college for Women in Asia (est. 1919). 1933
She graduated from Philippine Women's University and was a student at George Washington University (where she was Chair of the UN Commission on the Status of Women in 1969 and the first woman to serve as President of the UN Environment Program in 1975). [2] She also took post graduate training from the University of Chicago and Iowa State ...
Before she became president of Philippine Women's University (then called Philippine Women's College) in 1980, Munda rose from the ranks starting as a classroom teacher in the 1950s then became school registrar, then Assistant Dean and Dean of the College. She got promoted to vice-president of the university in 1977, then executive vice ...
On November 4, 1991, President Corazon Aquino allowed Imelda and her children to return to the Philippines so they could be formally charged in their tax fraud and corruption cases [135] [136] – part of the government's effort to convince Swiss courts to return the money in the Marcos' Swiss Bank accounts to the Philippine government. [137]
Corazon Aquino's accession to the presidency marked the end of authoritarian rule in the Philippines. Aquino is the first female president of the Philippines and is still the only president of the Philippines to have never held any prior political position. Aquino is regarded as the first female president in Asia.