1st Gender Equality Committee



Agency representatives to the 1st Gender Equality Committee (GEC) meeting express their support to the advocacy of showing positive women portrayal in media. In photo are (from left): Director Betty Lou Peñera (Philippine Information Agency), Dulce Quintana (Radio-TV Malacañang), Director Brando Merrera (News and Information Bureau), Esperanza Coronel, Victorino Simon, Jr., and Chairperson Ronald Ricketts (Optical Media Board).


  • Secretary Herminio “Sonny” Coloma (left) and PCW Executive Director Emmeline Verzosa (right) jointly facilitate the 1st meeting of the Gender Equality Committee (GEC) on October 1, 2010. The GEC is tasked to formulate gender equality guidelines and Code of Ethics for media as stipulated in the Magna Carta of Women provision on the Non-Discriminatory and Non-Derogatory Portrayal of Women in Media and Film.
  • PCW Executive Director Emmeline Verzosa (right) explains Section 19 of the Magna Carta of Women on the non-Discriminatory and non-derogatory portrayal of women in media.

Philippine Commission on Women (PCW) Executive Director Emmeline Verzosa (right) clarifies several gender issues in media to Michael Fajatin of GMA-7 and Joyce Pañares of Manila Standard Today during the meet and greet session with the members of the Malacañang Press Corps on October 1, 2010.