Gender Equality In Malaysia 2020
According to the report malaysia has the potential to add us 50 billion a year to its gross domestic product by 2025 which would be an 8 increase over its business as usual.
Gender equality in malaysia 2020. Gender equality initiative in malaysia launched on shedecides day 2020 march 16 2020. 2020 global gender impact report. March 8 2020 10 20 am. The government has been called to realise gender equality rights in the upcoming 2020 budget to ensure that women s interests are protected and discrimination can be avoided in accordance with specific provisions of the law.
Gender balance a trisector effort. Regional non profit women s organisation the asian pacific resource and research centre for women arrow recently launched an initiative to work with policy makers and civil society organisations on improving the lives of women girls and marginalised groups in malaysia in line with the agreed. The findings of the world economic forum s most recent gender gap report for example tell us that gender equality can only be achieved in 200 years. Much is at stake.
Watch ellyn shook our chief leadership human resources officer discuss the importance of creating a culture of equality where everyone belongs. The global gender gap index score for wage equality for similar work in malaysia in 2020 was 0 74 with a score of 1 being absolute parity and a score of 0 being absolute imparity. The proportion of women in managerial positions is less than 1 in 5 in malaysia and indonesia and less than 1 in 3 in cambodia lao pdr. Suhakam today pushed for malaysia to enact laws that formally recognise gender equality.
Achieve gender equality and empower all women and girls. Jag in a statement today pointed out that according to the election commission ec only. We celebrated our 16 th annual international women s day in 2020 knowing that if people are recognized as being multidimensional individuals and feel a sense of belonging they are empowered to innovate more. Perhaps what s most frustrating is that malaysia ranked 104 out of 144 countries indicating that gender inequality is still a very real issue in our country.