Why do OFW seafarers who account for about 20% of annual OFW deployment, account for 85% of OFW cases decided by the Supreme Court every year? The answer will be explored in detail in the latter part of this paper. 3.3 Number of OFW parties to the OFW cases, by sex (2015-2019) There were a total of 328 individual OFW party-litigants in the 223 OFW cases decided by the Supreme Court for the period 2015-2019. OFW party-litigants were predominantly male OFWs representing, on the average, 78.96% of the OFW party-litigants per year.17 On the average, female OFWs account for 21.04% of the OFW party-litigants per year. Between 2015-2016, only one in five (21%) of the OFW party-litigants were females, as most sea-based OFWs who made up the bulk of litigants, are predominantly male. 17 For illegal recruitment and estafa cases involving applicant OFWs, the victims or private offended parties were counted as party-litigants. Deceased OFWs represented by their legal heirs were also counted as party-litigants. 10