Category — Women in the news
Check and balance
By Meera Murugesan, The New Straits Times, August 6 2009
MEERA MURUGESAN learns that addressing the problem of insufficient women board members in public-listed companies results in far more advantages than just equalisation of the gender issue. [Read more →]
August 14, 2009 No Comments
Upping The Numbers
By Wong Li Za, The Star, August 13, 2009
Women need to increase their participation in both government and private sectors.
WOMEN hold up half the sky, or so goes a famous Chinese saying but in reality, the facts tell a different story. The rate of women participation in the workforce in 2008 was 46% or about four million women. Neighbouring countries like Singapore and Brunei have higher women participation rates at 60% and 61% respectively. [Read more →]
August 14, 2009 No Comments
Project to allow women flexi working hours
The Star, Saturday July 25, 2009
KUALA LUMPUR: A project offering jobs with flexible working hours for women will begin next week. The partnership between Wanita MCA’s women entrepreneur development centre with a South Korean company will kick-start at 10am at Wisma MCA on Tuesday.
July 25, 2009 5 Comments
Your 10 questions to Tan Sri Dr Jemilah Mahmood
Star Business, 18 July 2009
It is hard to come by someone like Tan Sri Dr Jemilah Mahmood. The president and founder of Malaysian Medical Relieve Society (Mercy Malaysia) gave up the pursuit of wealth to serve full-time as a volunteer, helping those in need irrespective of their race, religion or culture. Last year, she was one of 16 members appointed by United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon to the Advisory Group of the Central Emergency Response Fund.
July 19, 2009 No Comments
Nipping corruption
Governance Matters, The Star, June 27, 2009
By SHIREEN MUHIUDEEN
BRIBERY and corruption are clearly incompatible with good governance and harmful to the creation of value. The cost of corruption is enormous and it undermines the markets’ trust in companies and countries. Corruption is a governance issue and a social issue, and of course, a financial issue.
July 18, 2009 No Comments
ING has embarked on a three-year plan to transform itself
The Star Bizweek, Saturday October 4, 2008
By CECILIA KOK
DR Nirmala Menon gets asked very often about how it feels to be the “woman on top” since taking the helm as CEO/president of ING Insurance Bhd about a year ago. And she always replies that it’s a good feeling.
July 18, 2009 No Comments
Women survive better than men in business during crisis
The Star, Business section, 9 June 2009
KUALA LUMPUR: In times of crisis, women in business emerge well and survive better than men. The growth of women entrepreneurship in the last few decades has been extraordinary and highly successful women business owners these days pride themselves on being in charge of their own destiny, resilient and strive to find creative solutions to challenges.
July 18, 2009 No Comments
Women at the helm
Lifefocus, The Star, June 25, 2009
By PATSY KAM
YOU would think that after coming so far and chalking up so many successes, there are no longer any doubts about what women can do. Yet, some things have not changed. In fields that are traditionally dominated by men, women often still have to prove that they are just as skilful as the men, if not better.
July 18, 2009 No Comments
Read a book and pass it on
In Sunday People, New Straits Times
Reading nourishes the mind. It may even help you to get rich. Lawyer, writer and publisher Christina Chia tells RACHAEL PHILIP about her mission to get more Malaysians to read.
IF Napoleon Hill, one of the earliest personal success authors, was still alive he’d surely be proud of Christina Chia. A decade ago she had trouble talking in public. Today, not only is she giving talks but she’s tasted the power of the pen. [Read more →]
July 17, 2009 No Comments
Armani Mahiruddin is first woman deputy senate president
Giam Say Khoon, The Sun, 10 July 2009
KUALA LUMPUR (July 9, 2009) : Datuk Armani Mahiruddin has been elected deputy senate president, the first woman to hold the post in the Malaysian parliament’s 50-year history.
Armani Mahiruddin [Read more →]
July 10, 2009 No Comments











