Singapore forges own path to women’s development, says PAP Women’s Wing chair Sim Ann

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“We go for buy-in, not run-ins.”

the United Nations Gender Inequality Index, published in March 2024, which ranked Singapore eighth globally out of 166 countries, and first in the Asia-Pacific, for having a low level of gender inequality.

the increase in female representation in Parliament – women now make up 29 per cent of elected MPs, compared with 5 per cent in the 1989 to 1991 term of Parliament

 would not see quotas as necessary or desirable. “I don’t think we want to have a situation where people question whether or not a woman is there because of merit or because of the quota,”

 what’s important is that, at every step of the way, people feel that a woman is in a particular position because she is able to do the work, rather than, oh, because she’s a woman, that’s why she has the job

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