IN PHOTOS: The Filipina beyond Maria Clara

MANILA, Philippines – It’s women’s month once more.

As we celebrate equality and women’s rights, we share the different faces of the Filipina, beyond the image of Maria Clara. 

Here are photos by award-winning documentary photographer Rick Rocamora through the years, showing the contrast of rising equality and opportunity with continuing discrimination, persecution, and poverty for women in the Philippines.

– Rappler.com