Status of Women in Singapore - Meeting with SCWO (10 Oct)

Status of Women in Singapore - Meeting with SCWO
Do you know that over 66% of women earn $2000-2999 or less, and 64% of men earn $2000-2999 or more?

Does it matter that less than 25% of Parliament and fewer than 15% of CEOs of statutory bodies are women? That only 20% of employers are women? That countries like Malaysia and Australia have a Women's Ministry or a Women's Development Unit while Singapore has a Women's Desk with two staff members under the Family Development Unit of the Ministry of Community Development, Youth and Sports?

Do you know that your boss can fire you up to your 6th month of pregnancy without compensation?

Do you know that husbands cannot be charged with rape except within a limited set of circumstances.

AWARE would like to invite you to join SCWO and AWARE to find out all these & more on how we can serve our different sectors and move forward to strengthen the status of women in Singapore at the

Status of women in Singapore
A CEDAW Perspective and how women's organisations have a part to play

Date: Saturday, 10th November 2007
Time: 10.00am – 2.00pm
Venue: Georgette Chen Room –
SCWO Centre, 96 Waterloo Street
Kindly RSVP to ain@scwo.org.sg or call 6837 0611