shared how community based peer monitoring documented food insecurity due to loss of employment. 15 The worsening food insecurity has led many to rely on community pantries, food banks, and community/CSO led efforts to bridge the gap. 16 Continuing Multiple Burden and Unpaid Care Work A year into the crisis, women continue to bear the burden of unpaid care work at home.17 Employment and current educational arrangements remained remote - stradling women with the burden of taking care of the family, attending to paid employment remotely, and assisting children with their modules or taking care of the ill or the elderly. The situation is even more difficult for indigneous women and/or women in GIDA areas who also had to deal with their own difficulties in accessing needed government support, educational materials/modules for children, as well as the reality of the digital divide. During the Commissions’ women’s month celebration, several webinars highlighted the continuing multiple burden of women. The 2021 National Household Care Survey commissioned by Oxfam affirms this continuing multiple burden and unpaid care work of women. In said survey, Oxfam found that women spent up to 13 hours a day on unpaid care work compared to only 8 hours of men.18 While it is observed that men’s unpaid care work increased from 5 hours in 2017 to 8 hours during the pandemic, it is clear that the burden of care continues to fall primarily on women. Of the 13 hours women spend on care work, more than half or 7 hours are spent multi-tasking or juggling tasks at the same time.19 Same survey further showed that 1 out of 3 Filipinas experienced injury, illness, disability or other harms through their care work in the past six months.20 Health and emergencies Women are overly represented in the health sector, and as the pandemic rolls into its second year, the impact of the pandemic on women medical frontliners is among the key women’s human rights 15 16 Milagros Maquiling, Women with Disability Leader from Mindanao Wright and Coles. COVID made the Philippines’ hunger crisis worse. So why does hardly anyone want a vaccine?. CNN. 25 May 2021. https://edition.cnn.com/2021/05/24/asia/philippines-covid-hunger-intl-hnk-dst/index.html (accessed 31 August 2021) 17 Ramos,L. Pandemic is tough for all but Filipino women are carrying an even heavier burden. PhilStar. 18 March 2021.https://www.philstar.com/news-commentary/2021/03/18/2085223/pandemic-tough-all-filipino-women-are-carryingeven-heavier-burden (accessed 31 August 2021) 18 Oxfam. Filipino men log more care work hours due to pandemic but bulk of tasks still fall on women - survey’ https://philippines.oxfam.org/latest/stories/filipino-men-log-more-care-work-hours-due-pandemic-bulk-tasks-still-fall-women%E2%80%94 (Last accessed 28 August 2021) 19 Oxfam. Filipino men log more care work hours due to pandemic but bulk of tasks still fall on women - survey’ https://philippines.oxfam.org/latest/stories/filipino-men-log-more-care-work-hours-due-pandemic-bulk-tasks-still-fall-women%E2%80%94 (Last accessed 28 August 2021) 20 Gime,J. ‘Unpaid Carework is real work: Addressing gender roles in household.26 June 2021. Philstar. Available at https://www.philstar.com/lifestyle/health-and-family/2021/06/26/2107546/unpaid-care-work-real-work-addressing-genderroles-household (Last accessed 28 August 2021) 4