INTERACTIVE: Breaking down barriers

Often women candidates are pitted against each other, like in GE15 which five women were among the nine candidates contesting for the Ampang parliamentary seat. (From left: Dr Nurul Ashikin Mabahwi, Rodziah Ismail, Zuraida Kamaruddin, Low and Sasha Lyna Abdul Latif.

WILL Malaysia see a female prime minister one day?

In a survey conducted in 2020 by market research platform vase.ai, slightly more than half of the 1,000 Malaysians polled said that they would like to see the country led by a woman.