Budget 2023 must address gender gap in identified sectors, says NCWO

KUALA LUMPUR: The National Council of Women’s Organisations (NCWO) hopes that Budget 2023 would, among others, address the gender gap in employment, the increasing unpaid care work that has been exacerbated by the Covid-19 pandemic as well as improve the social security protection and access to rights and justice mechanisms.

Its president Prof Emeritus Tan Sri Dr Sharifah Hapsah Syed Hasan Shahabudin said investment in the childcare economy also needed to be stepped up to support women’s employment.