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 […]

New Straits Times, August 23 2008
By CHAI MEI LING
A multitude of issues concerning women were raised in this year’s Women’s Summit, but ways to achieve work-life balance remained the topic of focus. CHAI MEI LING comes away feeling like the summit was a new year do served with last year’s dishes
FLEXI hours. Job sharing. Working […]

News Straits Times, 23 August 2008
KUALA LUMPUR: Flexible hours have been practised by multinational companies for decades.

The good news is that more local companies have adopted the concept by replacing the traditional nine-to-five working hours with a more flexible, employee-oriented and result-driven work culture. This new work culture is less about the hours an employee […]

By Karen Arukesamy, The Sun
PETALING JAYA (Aug 5, 2008) : Faced with tough operating conditions brought on by skyrocketing fuel prices, Malaysia Airlines (MAS) today unveiled a voluntary flexi employment scheme in a bid to manage cost.
A company statement said employees are given two programmes to choose from — the Voluntary Leave Programme (VLP) and […]

AUG 6 2008 SINGAPORE: A more helpful husband is the biggest wish among one in four working mothers struggling to balance domestic roles with careers, a survey said yesterday. Dads who playa hands-on role n parenting emerged as far more important than obtaining more childcare leave from employers, acoording to the findings of the Working […]

Panel 1 Speakers
Leslie Bennetts is an acclaimed journalist, a contributing editor for Vanity Fair magazine and author of a controversial new book, “The Feminine Mistake: Are We Giving up too Much?” In it, Leslie highlights the many pitfalls that potentially face women that sacrifice employment and career to become full-time mothers. This has sparked […]

The number of women in formal employment has grown steadily in the past 50 years. Today, women form 36 percent of the workforce and this figure is growing. Malaysian women also continue to push into new frontiers, taking on challenging leadership and management roles, becoming entrepreneurs, and showing their mettle in international postings.
However, with exciting […]

8:30am     Registration and Welcome coffee
9:30am     Welcome Address: Y Bhg Datuk Faizah Mohd Tahir, Secretary General, Ministry of Women, Family and Community Development
9:40am     Keynote Address
Putting Women at the Heart of DevelopmentYB Dato’ Sri Shahrizat Abdul Jalil, Minister of Women, Family and Community Development Malaysia
10:10am   MERDEKA MOMENTS - A COMPELLING CONVERSATION ON MALAYSIAN WOMEN• Ar. Nafisah Radin, Principal of […]

COMMUNICATING WITH CONFIDENCE
 Facilitated by Jonathan Kohn, Director of Human Resources, Shell Malaysia, Diversity and Inclusiveness (D&I) is a business philosophy that has been embraced by Shell. The company has made it the imperative of its managers to put it into practice throughout its global operations. Given that Shell operates in more than 140 countries and […]

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 […]