Entries from August 2007
Benarkan pekerja wanita berhenti sementara demi anak
August 2 2007 KUALA LUMPUR: Kaum wanita di negara ini wajar diberi kelonggaran dalam pekerjaan bagi membolehkan mereka turut menumpukan perhatian kepada keluarga masing-masing, kata Timbalan Perdana Menteri Datuk Seri Najib Tun Razak.
Beliau berkata sektor perkhidmatan awam dan swasta perlu mengkaji kemungkinan untuk membenarkan pekerja wanita mereka berhenti sementara bagi menunaikan tanggungjawab kepada keluarga, sebelum […]
Keynote Address by Deputy Prime Minister
Assalamualaikum Warahmatullahi Wabarakatuh dan salam sejahtera.
YB Dato’ Sri Shahrizat Abdul Jalil
Menteri Pembangunan Wanita, Keluarga dan Masyarakat
Y.Bhg Datuk Faizah Mohd Tahir
Ketua Setiausaha
Kementerian Pembangunan Wanita, Keluarga dan Masyarakat
YB Datin Paduka Chew Mei Fun
Setiausaha Parlimen
Kementerian Pembangunan Wanita, Keluarga dan Masyarakat
Y.Bhg Tan Sri Datuk Seri Dr. Hajah Aishah Ghani
Y.Bhg Tan Sri Datin Paduka Seri Hajah Zaleha Binti Ismail
Pengerusi LPPKN
Isteri […]
The case for working women
The Star, August 7 2007
Women should work and earn a living rather than heap unnecessary financial burdens upon themselves.
By PATSY KAM
AFTER a 24-hour flight from New York, the last thing you’d want to do is give a breakfast interview. But reporter, mother-of-two and author of the book The Feminine Mistake, Leslie Bennetts, kindly obliged […]
Leslie Bennetts Summit speech
Recently I had lunch with a professional woman who has a successful career and two small children. The minute we sat down, she said, “I just can’t take the stress any more. It’s too hard trying to juggle everything. I’m going to ask my boss if I can work part-time instead of full-time.”
This woman knew […]
Issues: Working women, balancing acts
By : CHAI MEI LING, WONG YING SIM and ANIZA ZAINUDIN
NST, 5 August 2007
Even as working mothers worldwide mull over the decision of whether to hang up their powersuits and don the apron, they are asked to consider a different perspective. CHAI MEI LING, WONG YING SIM and ANIZA ZAINUDIN at the Women’s Summit, find […]
Spotlight: ‘Even when you are gone, your buildings will stand forever’
NST, 28 July 2007
BY CHAI MEI LING
Womenfolk in Malaysia have come a long way, having contributed significantly to the country’s growth in many areas. CHAI MEI LING talks to two women who have made it to the top of their profession.
Nafisah Radin: When you are up there, people do not look at whether you […]
Categories: WOMEN'S SUMMIT 2007 · WS2007 IN THE PRESSOpt-out, opt-in being studied
The Star, August 3 2007
By IZATUN SHARI
KUALA LUMPUR: Take a break to give birth and raise your baby. And when the child’s big enough, come back to work. This is an option that new mothers may soon have in a flexi scheme that is being studied by the Public Services Department(PSD).
Women’s role: Shahrizat, Najib and his wife […]
Categories: WOMEN'S SUMMIT 2007 · WS2007 IN THE PRESSNo labels, please
By Francis Dass
The author of The Feminine Mistake: Are We Giving Up Too Much? challenges FRANCIS DASS’s perception of a feminist.
THE gods MUST be crazy. I kept thinking that when I was assigned to interview a speaker at The Women’s Summit, Kuala Lumpur. Being old-fashioned, the thought of interviewing a feminist made me roll my […]
Categories: Leslie Bennetts · The Feminine Mistake · WOMEN'S SUMMIT 2007 · WS2007 IN THE PRESSGovt mulls flexi option for working mothers
NST, August 3 2007
By Nurris Ishak and Godhuli Chatterjee
Deputy Prime Minister Datuk Seri Najib Razak, his wife Datin Seri Rosmah Mansor and Women, Family and Community Development Minister Datuk Seri Shahrizat Abdul Jalil with women and children after opening The Women’s Summit.
KUALA LUMPUR: Women should have the choice of opting out of the workforce to […]