CEDAW/C/PHI/5-6 In government-owned and controlled corporations, women occupied 963 or 43% of total filledup CES positions. There were fewer women (1,056 or 37 percent of total) among CES-level appointees in constitutional agencies/national government agencies. Increasing Participation in Military Academy 91. The opening up to women of fields that were previously the exclusive domains of men (such as military training and “hard” vocational and technical fields like welding, automotive and electronics) demonstrated that women could perform in these fields as well, if not better, than men. Of the 148 PMA graduates in 1997, 7 were women, one of whom garnered the highest honors. In the admission examinations for SY 1999-2000, a woman topped the exams with two others in the top ten. Their performance is a good indicator of their potential as leaders in the military service. Increasing Participation in Police Service and Academy 92. Since the adoption of RA 8551 or the Philippine National Police Reform and Reorganization Act of 1998, the annual recruitment of women police officers has been above the prescribed 10percent quota. Although it initially dropped from 15 percent in 1999 to 11 percent in 2000, it has since been rising. By 2002, women recruits accounted for 17 percent of total, mostly for junior officer positions. No woman police officer was hired for top-level positions (PNP 2002). However, the adoption in 1999 of an affirmative action program in the Police Academy made possible the lateral entry of women police officers into the command. From 1999 to 2002, a total of 1,781 women police officers, or 14 percent of total police officers, were hired (PNP 2002). More Measures Against Sexual Harassment in Ecozones 93. PEZA reports plant-level implementation of RA 7877 or the Anti-Sexual Harassment Act of 1995 through the creation of Committee on Decorum and Investigation in 151 locatorenterprises and five in PEZA head office/zone offices. Anti-sexual harassment policies also included in nine enterprises while women’s desks were created in three ecozones. However, a study has yet to be done on the impact of the committee in the ecozones. Expanding Gainful Employment and Skills Training 94. The skills training program of the social welfare department regularly bore fruit. From June 1995 to June 1999, some 166,293 women benefited from skills training programs in 107 Productivity Skills Capability Building for Disadvantaged Women (PSCB) centers nationwide. Of these, 136,262 (or 82 percent of the trainees) were eventually absorbed in the labor force. In 2001, a total of 31,827 disadvantaged women were trained, of whom 87 percent became gainfully employed through open, self-employed, subcontracted trainers and other types of jobs. At TESDA, trained women welders had won prizes, besting male welders. Mainstreaming Gender at the National Level 95. Assessment conducted by CIDA on its support showed that the Philippine government’s gender mainstreaming strategy have produced results, among which are (Schalkwyk, 2002): 37