Feature: Mind the gap!


MALAYSIA has a woman deputy prime minister. We have women in the Cabinet. But there is still a lot more to be done to have gender parity in the general labour force, where women make up only about a third.

“Are women facing challenges? I say yes, ” says Mahuran Saro Sariki, deputy chief executive officer of Talent Corp Malaysia Bhd (TalentCorp), the national agency driving Malaysia’s talent strategy under the aegis of the Human Resources Ministry.

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