Sivakumar (right) and Chow at the launch ceremony of Women Empowerment Month 2023 at Setia SPICE Convention Centre. — LIM BENG TATT/The Star
THE Federal Government is pushing to increase the participation of women in the workforce by 20% within the next two years.
Human Resources Minister V. Sivakumar said the participation of women in the country’s workforce was still a low 39% and that the government was looking at ways to improve this figure.
