M’sia needs more women making decisions


IT was nice to acknowledge on International Women’s Day on Friday that Malaysia has indeed made some strides in gender equality.

We’ve done especially well in education, according to the Global Gender Gap Index 2023. Malaysian women are on par with men with a score of 1 compared with 0.995 in 2022 (a score of 1 means equality has been attained).

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