Firms prefer single women. Often when they marry and have their first child they move to sub-contracting from home. As their children are older they often go back to the factory, but when they reach their 40 s they move again into the informal sector to take up crafts production or open variety stores. It is good for women to have employment alternatives. It gives them a better chance to control their lives, if they control the income they earn.
Philippine women feel a strong duty to support family.
Men often spend their income on alcohol, gambling, and mistresses this spending does not usually break up family units. Women spend their income on the family. Thus, intra-household gender relations are an important determinant of the extent to which trade will benefit women. H.R. 1095 would grant faster and deeper debt relief for highly indebted poor countries that agree to designate a substantial portion of the freed resources to poverty reduction. Jubilee 2000 Campaign.