CEDAW/C/PHI/4 English Page 47 173. Data from CSC reveal the following trend in women's occupation of career executive positions in government: Percentage female in government career executive positions 1994 15.0 1980 26.0 1990 29.0 174. A survey of labour organizations covering 4,290 establishments conducted by the Bureau of Labor and Employment Statistics in 1991 showed that men outnumbered women in labour union membership. Women accounted for only 35 per cent of the total membership of 233,338 and only 14 per cent of the 1,260 union presidents. 175. Republic Act 5490 authorized the building of more free trade zones where women's labour power was available at the cheapest possible rate. Out of 61,329 workers, 75 per cent are females working on textiles, garments, rubber products and electrical machinery. 176. The latest figures place the number of overseas contract workers at 52 per cent women. This reflects employment distress that affects the working women population. Women domestic helpers comprise 57 per cent of such workers in the service sectors, while entertainers comprise 34 per cent of those in the professional sector. 177. The median age of women overseas contract workers was estimated at 29.6 years, about six years less than the estimated median age of 35.9 years for men. The majority of the newly hired were in vulnerable occupations such as domestic helpers and entertainers, 32.5 per cent and 18.9 per cent respectively, of total deployment in 1993. Together, these occupations comprised 51.4 per cent of all newly hired, 95 per cent of them women. These figures exhibit the increasing feminization of overseas labour migration. Policy developments 178. The following policies are those adopted during the reporting period and those that were not included in the previous reports. Policies promoting equal employment 179. CSC passed resolution 84-463 which provides for the adoption and implementation of a policy (equality advocates or EQUADS) programme on equal opportunities and equal treatment for women and men in government employment. EQUADS at the CSC central office and in 14 regional offices attend to complaints of discrimination such as gender, political and sexual harassment. /...