CEDAW/C/PHI/5-6 inspection of establishments, develop inspection guidelines on women workers’ concerns, and strengthen the national policy on homeworkers. 370. During the period under review, the Philippine Congress enacted several legislation that address gender-based discrimination issues in the workplace. The Solo Parents Act provides that an employer may not discriminate against any solo parent with respect to terms and conditions of employment. Another law, RA 8187, grants a seven-day paid paternity leave to a married male employee in both public and private sectors whose legitimate spouse delivered a child or suffered a miscarriage, to enable him to effectively lend her care and support during and after childbirth and assist in the care of the newborn. In addition, there are bills in the Senate (Nos. 601 and 1248) that seek to empower women by providing for development programs, financial assistance to foster investment in businesses by women, and education and information assistance. 371. In the few cases of discrimination that reached the Supreme Court, the Court has decided in favor of the woman complainant. Consonant with Sec. 2, Art. 11 of the Constitution, the Supreme Court cited the Convention that prohibits discrimination against women with respect to terms and conditions of employment as the basis of corrective labor and social laws where the services of a female employee were terminated because she contracted marriage during employment (Supreme Court Reports Annotated [SCRA] 1997). 372. During the period under review, several studies were conducted that were aimed at promoting better understanding of the effects of globalization on women, gender-based discrimination in the workplace, and the contributions women make to the economy. These studies were undertaken partly in support of policymaking. Among these studies are the following: a. From 1997 to 2001, the National Statistical Coordination Board engaged in the development of a framework for measuring women’s and men’s contribution to the economy. It used secondary data and the pilot time-use survey by the National Statistics Office19 to test a framework for measuring women’s contribution in the proposed satellite account in the System of National Accounts. b. In 2001, the University of the Philippines Center for Women’s Studies supported a series of studies to investigate the immediate and long-term impact of globalization on women in various occupation groups: women in the garments industry, indigenous women, and migrant women. The garments industry study in particular noted changes in the structure of the industry, such as the by-passing of middle-level subcontractors due to increased competition and to the crisis that left only big firms surviving the competition; a shrinking market share of domestic producers caused by the flooding of cheaper imports; and increased vulnerability of homeworkers to layoffs and loss of orders due to the introduction of new technologies such as computer-aided embroidery. c. As part of a joint regional technical assistance of the Asian Development Bank and the ILO entitled “Strengthening International Labor Standards in Selected Developing Member 19The pilot time use survey focused on household population 10 years old and over. It aimed at generating data on how they allocate their time to paid work, housework, other non-market work and free-time activities; providing quantitative information needed in estimating the value of unpaid housework; and identifying the factors that influence a person’s choice of the use of time and how these are distributed among different population sub-groups. 102