Prihatin stimulus package does not reach women who are most at risk

MANY women will fall through the cracks of the recently announced stimulus package, which fails to account for those most exposed to the fallout from the Covid-19 outbreak.

The scope of the stimulus package must be widened to meet the needs of those individuals most susceptible to losing their livelihoods, including female-headed households, domestic violence survivors, women workers in vulnerable employment, and at-risk non-citizens living in Malaysia.