Gender discrimination must end for SG to flourish

• QX179R

  8 Mar 11, 22:39

  SINGAPORE: The Association of Women for Action and Research (AWARE) says for all the progress made in the last 25 years, gender discrimination still exists in Singapore today.

  This, it said, was the unanimous view of about 200 participants at the Women's Choices, Women's Lives: Shaping the Next 25 Years conference last Saturday.

  In a statement Tuesday, AWARE said this discrimination must be eradicated and gender equity achieved if Singapore is to truly flourish in the next 25 years and if the challenges of the low fertility rate and the ageing population are to be tackled effectively.
  
  It is pushing for a quota of 30 per cent to be set for women in Parliament as recommended by the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women (CEDAW), which was ratified by Singapore in 1995.
  
  While this has not been achieved, greater women representation in Parliament has made some headway in the last 10 years.
  
  The number of women in parliament doubled from 12 per cent in 2001 to 24.5 per cent today.
  
  Singapore also saw its first female Minister, Mrs Lim Hwee Hua, sworn in in 2009.
  
  Mrs Lim is Minister in the Prime Minister's Office and Second Minister for Finance and Transport.
  
  AWARE is also calling for an independent body to be formed to ensure equal opportunities for both women and men.
  
  It also wants all policies and legislation to be reviewed and all gender discriminatory laws, policies and practices to be removed or replaced with laws, policies and practices that promote an equitable and sustainable work-life balance for both women and men.
  
  AWARE also recommends that gender studies be added to the core curriculum for all students, and in the Civil Service.
  
  The recommendations are part of a 100 point wish list submitted by participants during the conference.
  
  AWARE says it will submit finalised recommendations to policy makers and other stakeholders.
  
  - CNA/cc

• laurence82

  8 Mar 11, 22:42

  talk cock

• Ice kosong

  8 Mar 11, 22:47

  women no cock to talk n nothin better to do

• Siliconchip

  9 Mar 11, 01:42

  These idiots again. Talk so much about gender equality, but leave things like NS alone. Equal rights groups with a self serving bias. How disgraceful.

• likeyou

  9 Mar 11, 07:51

  It will be hard to have equality in spore.

  Just like some say, guys do ns, yes, that is not equal. And guys waste 2 donkey years.

  Ladies earning power already more or less drawing the same pay compare to men.

  Ladies got the same purchasing power.

  Ladies will not want to bear children, forgoing their current status and high pay salary jobs.

  That is why birth rate goes south.

• Shorter ninja

  9 Mar 11, 07:58

  Please be AWARE that women live longer than men because they???Everything oso want.

• likeyou

  9 Mar 11, 08:00

  Yes, they want from guy from top to bottom. Everything.

• Shorter ninja

  9 Mar 11, 08:20

  Originally posted by likeyou:

  Yes, they want from guy from top to bottom. Everything.

  
  And we guys very simple we only want the bottom.

• likeyou

  9 Mar 11, 08:35

  Originally posted by Shorter ninja:

  
  And we guys very simple we only want the bottom.

  
  ha...u may have the bottom. I take the top...hahahaha

• Taiyaki

  9 Mar 11, 11:03

  GENDER DISCRIMINATION SHALL END IF WE HAVE A FEMALE PRIME MINISTER !!!

  VOTE HO CHING INTO PARLIAMENT AND LET HER BE PRIME MINISITER !!!

• Taiyaki

  9 Mar 11, 11:05

  Ho Ching has run Tamasek well.

   

• Amitayus48

  9 Mar 11, 15:11

  

  To study genders more accurately, this literature of humanity love is very good for debate in the parliament or in aware :

  
  The Heart Sutra English Translation
  
  When Bodhisattva Avalokitesvara practised the deep Prajnaparamita, he saw that the five skandhas were empty; thus he overcame all ills and suffering.
  
  "O Sariputra! Form does not differ from the void, and the void does not differ from the form. Form is the void, and the void is form. The same is true for feelings, conceptions, impulses and consciousness.
  
  O Sariputra, the characteristics of the void is not created, not annihilated, not impure, not pure, not increasing, not decreasing.
  
  Therefore, in the void there are no forms and no feelings, conceptions, impulses and no consciousness: there is no eye, ear, nose, tongue, body or mind; there is no form, sound, smell, taste, touch or idea; no eye elements, until we come to no elements of consciousness; no ignorance and also no ending of ignorance, until we come to no old age and death; and no ending of old age and death.
  
  Also, there is no truth of suffering, of the cause of suffering, of the cessation of suffering or of the path. There is no wisdom, and there is no attainment whatsoever. Because there is nothing to be attained, a Bodhisattva relying on Prajnaparamita has no obstruction in his heart. Because there is no obstruction he has no fear, and he passes far beyond all confused imagination and reaches Ultimate Nirvana.
  
  All Buddhas in the past, present and future have attained Supreme Enlightenment by relying on the Prajnaparamita. Therefore we know that the Prajnaparamita is the great magic Mantra, the great Mantra of illumination, it is the supreme Mantra, the unequaled Mantra which can truly wipe out all suffering without fail."
  
  Therefore, he uttered the Prajnaparamita mantra, by saying:
  
  "Gate, Gate, Paragate, Parasemgate Bodhi-svaha!"

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• Lasagna

  9 Mar 11, 15:25

   

  
  Let's vote more women MPs into paliament lor.

   

• Asromanista2001

  9 Mar 11, 15:33

  Originally posted by Lasagna:

  
  Let's vote more women MPs into paliament lor.

   

   

   

  yah hor..........................clone of Taiyaki......................

• Lasagna

  9 Mar 11, 15:37

  Originally posted by Asromanista2001:

   

   

  yah hor..........................clone of Taiyaki......................

  
  I got banned gain until 2037 !!!

• likeyou

  9 Mar 11, 16:49

  Woman charter act, why dont hv Men Charter Act?

• Vote PAP OUT to Save SG

  9 Mar 11, 21:49

  Gender discrimination must end for SG to flourish

  
  

  
  

  Maybe it's time for females to serve NS and shorten NS to 1 year. They can serve as medic, admin etc.

   

  We can't discriminate females from serving NS.

• Siliconchip

  10 Mar 11, 00:44

  Originally posted by Vote PAP OUT to Save SG:

  
  

  Maybe it's time for females to serve NS and shorten NS to 1 year. They can serve as medic, admin etc.

   

  We can't discriminate females from serving NS.

  They can also be in charge of area cleaning, polishing boots.

• -StarDust-

  10 Mar 11, 12:11

  When females are called for NS, gender discrimination shall end !!!

• Fcukpap

  10 Mar 11, 20:33

  wowz....Stardust...solid reply....