Focus on improving gender equality


KUCHING, 8 Mac -- Menteri Pembangunan Wanita, Keluarga dan Masyarakat, Datuk Seri Rohani Karim (empat, kiri) bersama isteri Ketua Menteri, Puan Sri Jamilah Anu (tengah) serta Menteri Kebajikan Wanita dan Pembangunan Keluarga Sarawak, Datuk Fatimah Abdullah (tiga, kanan) sempat berwelfie dengan para hadirin selepas perasmian sambutan Hari Wanita Antarabangsa 2016 bertemakan Kesaksamaan Gender di sebuah pusat membeli-belah terkemuka hari ini. -- fotoBERNAMA (2016) HAK CIPTA TERPELIHARA

THE International Women’s Day celebration on Tuesday gave us a reminder that much still needs to be done to improve gender equality in Malaysia.

In a speech at an event marking the occasion in Kuching, the Chief Minister’s wife, Puan Sri Jamilah Anu, cited the World Economic Forum’s Global Gender Gap Index 2015 which placed Malaysia in 111th place out of 145 countries.

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