Planning to achieve gender equality

BUDGET 2018 offers great reasons for women to celebrate. In his speech to announce the budget, Prime Minister-cum-Finance Minister I Datuk Seri Najib Tun Razak described 2018 as the year to empower women and directed that 30% of members of the board of directors in GLC, GLIC and statutory bodies must be women.

Before this, BBC News on Sept 6 had reported that Malaysia plans to publish the names of companies with no women on their board next year, and those firms risk losing government contracts. This was from a speech by Najib about women and the economy.