By Jolene Tan, Programmes and Communications Senior Manager, AWARE
This letter was written for the Straits Times Forum, responding to this letter, but was not published as some points were seen as irrelevant to the career woman vs. stay-at-home-mom debate. We are publishing the letter here to discu...
By Jolene Tan, Programmes and Communications Senior Manager, Association of Women for Action and Research
Last Friday's commentary ("For many, parenthood is one part blessing and one part trauma") was refreshingly honest about the experience of parenthood.
Too often, new parents feel unable t...
By Jolene Tan, Programmes and Communications Senior Manager, AWARE
Ms Shelen Ang is right to suggest that we should value childcare – and other caregiving – performed by men (“Fathers deserve more recognition”, 14 June).
The Association of Women for Action and Research (AWARE) has ...
By Jolene Tan, Programmes and Communications Senior Manager, Association of Women for Action and Research
It is heartening to see a growing consensus that the under-representation of women in organisational leadership requires a proactive response (“Why boards need to ensure gender diversity...
By Jolene Tan and Teo You Yenn
In our society, families come in many forms. Every person has family, at least at some point in their life. The same individual’s family can look quite different at different times. These are empirical facts, not ideological positions.
It follows that the w...
By Jolene Tan, Programmes and Communications Senior Manager, Association of Women for Action and Research
Our society should rightly be pleased with its high ranking in the Save the Children report on motherhood ("Singapore best place in Asia to be a mum"; last Wednesday).
Singapore's low ra...
MS JESSICA Jaganathan's letter is timely ("Offer unpaid extension of maternity leave").
A society that recognises the value of family life should structure employment so as to enable everyone, regardless of gender, to fully enjoy active parenthood alongside participation in the workforce. This as...
The idea that flexi-work conditions are economically undesirable is rooted in a sexist division of labour and must be changed ("Fewer firms opting for flexi-work conditions"; March 17).
In reality, all employees have domestic needs and responsibilities, including housework and caregiving. Everyon...
On 29 January, AWARE submitted its fourth annual set of recommendations for the national budget, emphasising the issues of: 1) poverty and income inequality, 2) support for caregivers, 3) healthcare financing in Singapore, and 4) transparency and inclusiveness in the budget process.
With the announ...
