WE sought the comments of two leading feminists, lawyer Katrina Legarda and Inquirer columnist Rina Jimenez-David, on our recent post deploring the discriminatory ads in the Philippine newspapers’ Classified Ads sections (“Age and sex discrimination in hiring policies in RP”).

Katrina wrote: “I have been asking senators and congressmen (since 1986 ha) why it is they have not outlawed this kind of gender and age discrimination. Answer? No one has filed a bill… OK ba? It’s like divorce, and the difference between adultery and concubinage… no one supports these issues when they get to the floor, then when victimized spouses come to see me, they ask why the law is so unfair against women… they look at me blankly when I ask them where they were when I was trying to fight for them on these issues. They didn’t know daw. Well, ignorance of the law excuses no one.

“I choose my battles. Men and women who have been discriminated against should get their acts together. Hay naku.”

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