Being stereotyped as “slow” and “less productive” at the workplace. Facing financial strain due to rising caregiving and healthcare costs. Experiencing isolation and loneliness as a result of living alone.
These were some of the concerns raised by older women in a series of focus ...
Written by Victoria Jagger, AWARE intern
Following Deputy Prime Minister Lawrence Wong’s Budget speech on 14 February 2023, Parliament conducted the Committee of Supply (COS) debates. COS debates are an opportunity for Members of Parliament (MPs) to discuss and question each Ministry’s ag...
This op-ed was originally published in The Straits Times on 18 January 2023.
Mum died last month.
I mourn her passing but I am also thankful she is no longer in pain. At a frail 93, her quality of life had not been good the past few years.
Today, there is a strange bittersweet void in ...
This op-ed was originally published in The Straits Times on 24 October 2022.
One in two workers in Singapore said he or she has experienced workplace discrimination in the past five years, according to a survey of 1,000 workers by gender advocacy group the Association of Women for Action and ...
This letter was originally published in The Straits Times on 9 August 2022.
Recently, there were two reported incidents of migrant domestic workers with eldercare duties being convicted of harming their care recipients.
No act of violence against anyone, particularly against vulnerable indiv...
This post was originally published as a press release on 19 February 2022.
Gender-equality organisation AWARE welcomed a range of measures announced yesterday by Finance Minister Lawrence Wong in Singapore’s “Charting Our New Way Forward Together” National Budget.
In particular, the ...
Caregiving for someone with dementia is a huge undertaking, particularly when one is not adequately equipped to do so. M.E’s challenges in caring for the author’s mother are definitely not unique (Putting mum in a nursing home will be the last resort, Aug 16).
Many families in Singapore hire ...
This post was originally published as a press release on 29 July 2021.
29 July 2021 - Implement comprehensive sexuality education covering consent, violence and gender roles in all schools in Singapore. Place a legal obligation on employers to address workplace harassment. Impose a temporary,...
The Singapore Alliance for Women in Ageing (SAWA) is an alliance of four organisations (AWARE, Persatuan Pemudi Islam Singapura, Singapore Council of Women’s Organisations and the Tsao Foundation), established in 2018 to raise awareness about the gendered nature of ageing in Singapore.
SAWA...
