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  Entries from September 2008

Najib backs women’s flexi-hours

The Star, 22 August 2008
By IZATUN SHARI
KUALA LUMPUR: Women should be allowed to work flexible hours because it will encourage more women to join the workforce while helping them to balance work and family.
Deputy Prime Minister Datuk Seri Najib Tun Razak said a review of the Employment Act 1955 was timely and necessary to allow […]

Categories: Media coverage of The Women's Summit 2008 · The Women's Summit 2008 · Flexible employment · Work Life Balance

Playing with the boys

The Star, 4 Sept 2008
By S. Indramalar
Women need to make male colleagues their allies.
WHEN she conceded defeat to Barack Obama in the Democratic presidential nomination last June, Hillary Clinton addressed the millions of women who had backed her and said: “You can be proud that, from now on, it will be unremarkable for a woman to […]

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