CEDAW/C/PHI/4 English Page 25 (a) Filipino Women: Issues and Trends - a compendium of statistics on women in population, families and households, employment, education, health, and public life; (b) Trends in Women's Employment in the Regions: 1991-1994 - a publication that compares women's and men's selected employment data across the 15 regions and in two reference periods; (c) Statistical Factsheets consist of six factsheets (population, families and households, employment, public life, education, and health) and are a handy reference for users; (d) Filipino Women Migrants: A Statistical Factbook - provides basic information on Filipino women overseas contract workers and women emigrants, which includes mail-order brides. Other government programmes 40. The departments of social welfare and development, health, agrarian reform, education, environment and natural resources, among others, have specific programmes and services for women that were implemented during this reporting period. However, these are reported in detail under subsequent articles. Programmes/projects of non-governmental organizations 41. The non-governmental organizations have always been active partners of government in formulating and implementing programmes and projects for women. NCWP created, within its structure, a regional mechanism by which the Philippine Development Plan for Women could be implemented down to the grass-roots. It produced a Handy Guide Series used for trainers training of their members who then formed women in development action teams to implement the Development Plan. 42. Philippine non-governmental organizations have been very active in terms of direct services, such as for women victims of violent situations, prostituted women etc., legal services, information drives and campaigns, legislative advocacy, organizing and training grass-roots women, among others. II. ARTICLE 5 Adoption of measures to modify socio-cultural patterns of conduct towards eliminating stereotyped roles for women and men; and ensuring sharing of responsibility in the upbringing and development of children 43. Women's oppression is created and reinforced by a host of institutions. The socialization process in the family, the educational system with its textbooks, teachers' attitudes and policies, the portrayal of women in the media, the blindness of government programmes and the legal system to women's needs, the teachings of various religions on women, all contribute to the further discrimination against them. /...