Article: Magna Carta of women nearing plenary approval

THE Magna Carta of Women, which empowers women as equal to men in authority, is now out of the hands of the House Committee on Rules and is being readied for plenary approval.

The Magna Carta of Women not only calls for equal treatment before the law, but is an effort to revise, if not totally repeal, discriminatory provisions against women in the country's various laws.

This includes some provisions of the Family Code, specifically provisions 96, 124, 211 and 335 which pertain to a husband's decision prevailing over the wife's in disagreements involving conjugal property, and in cases of parental authority and legal guardianship over the person and property of a common child.

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