This post was originally published as a press release on 20 September 2022.
Around 1 in 2 workers in Singapore experienced workplace discrimination in the past five years, reveals a new survey by gender equality group AWARE in partnership with consumer research company Milieu Insight.
Sin...
This letter was originally published in The Straits Times on 9 July 2022.
The Association of Women for Action and Research is pleased to hear that the advisory committee on platform workers is adopting the principle that a delivery gig worker is not dissimilar from a worker who does delivery work...
On 10 June 2022, the Singapore Press Club Awards honoured AWARE founding member and veteran journalist Margaret Thomas, inducting her into the Singapore Media Industry Hall of Fame as part of its inaugural batch.
To celebrate Margie’s latest accolade, here’s a throwback to February 1986, when...
This letter was originally published in The Straits Times on 14 April 2022.
Career mentorship programmes were one of the proposed action plans in the recently endorsed White Paper on Singapore Women's Development to support gender diversity on boards (Mentoring aspiring women directors to be ...
This op-ed was originally published to The Business Times on 5 April 2022.
ARE Singapore's workplaces doing enough to address gender inequality?
On Mar 28, the government unveiled its long-awaited White Paper on Singapore Women's Development: a 25-point action plan, 18 months in the making. ...
This op-ed was originally published in The Straits Times on December 24 2021.
For three in 10 victims of workplace sexual harassment who report their experiences, instead of setting them on a path to justice and recourse, it ends up triggering some form of retaliation - from perpetrators, employe...
This op-ed was originally published in the Business Times on December 17 2021.
MELISSA* (name changed to protect her identity) had just started work as a senior manager at a multinational corporation (MNC) when she began to be harassed by the chief executive officer (CEO) of the company. The CEO...
This post was originally published as a press release on 8 December 2021.
8 December 2021 - Many women who experience workplace sexual harassment in Singapore end up quitting their jobs, spending months or years out of work, going through extended periods of low productivity and facing other ...
This letter was originally published in The Straits Times on November 19 2021.
Since the announcement in August that anti-discrimination legislation will be enacted, both the public and parliamentarians have raised relevant questions about what the legislation entails and its implications (...
