The UP Diliman (UPD) community mourns the passing of Ma. Delia Arellano-Monares, PhD of the College of Social Work and Community Development (CSWCD) on June 18.
Arellano-Monares was an associate professor at the CSWCD where she served from 1995 to 2004. She also chaired the Department of Women and Development Studies.
According to a CSWCD Facebook post, she earned her Master of Arts in Women and Development program in 1991 at the CSWCD. Her Tapestry of Knowledge on Women in the Philippines was the first master’s thesis on women and development in UPD.
Arellano-Monares was recognized for her pioneering contributions to women’s studies and development. Furthermore, her scholarship and service “helped advance the fields of social work, community development, and women’s studies in the Philippines.”
She authored A Woman’s Work Is Never Done: A Review of Literature on Women 1986–1996 (co-authored with CSWCD professors Emerita Rosalinda Pineda-Ofreneo and Rosario S. del Rosario, Victoria Narciso Apuan, and Merceditas C. Cruz) and Building Women’s Studies Curriculum in Asia: Proposed Frameworks.
Arellano-Monares served as an assistant project director of the Regional Reproductive Health Resource Network, or more known as REPROCEN, and authored the first master’s theses on women and development, Tapestry of Knowledge on Women in the Philippines (1991), at UP Diliman.