It may be timely to consider enacting a comprehensive anti-discrimination law to guide employers’ conduct in hiring, promotion and other employment matters.
In Singapore, there is widespread agreement on the principle that opportunities for work and advancement should be equally available to al...
Join us at AWARE on 20 November 2014 to discuss how "work-life balance" as a problem is handled across class lines.
"Work-life balance" as a public problem has come to the fore in Singapore as in other developed countries. Women's capacities to balance wage-earning and caregiving has received a...
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...
We, the undersigned, are alarmed by the recent surge of racism and xenophobia in Singapore. They threaten the human rights of all (especially migrants) and the health of our political conversation.
The key to addressing the economic frustrations felt by many Singaporeans is to amend the economi...
by Teo You Yenn
The ongoing discussion on the rights of domestic workers to days off and leisure spaces is not just about how the Singapore state should treat foreign workers who contribute to the economy. Nor is it only about relations between domestic workers and employers. Ultimately, it reve...
By Corinna Lim and Jolene Tan
Employment must be fair. This simple imperative lies at the heart of the Fair Consideration Framework recently announced by the Ministry of Manpower (MOM). The new policy takes aim against nationality- based discrimination in employment decisions. But its implication...
"We shouldn't get our women into jobs where they cannot, at the same time, be mothers...You just can't be doing a full-time heavy job like that of a doctor or engineer and run a home and bring up children." (Prime Minister Lee Kuan Yew, in The Straits Times, 1983)
Thirty years later, it is imp...
By Corinna Lim
For every 1 person that comes into Singapore to replace our shrinking citizenship, 2.5 persons are allowed in as transient workers for pure economic reasons. That is high and this is what the current debate should focus on instead of lumping the economic and demographic issues as on...
In 2010, on the occasion of AWARE's 25th anniversary, a special commendation was given to Ms Constance Singam, in recognition of her outstanding Contributions to the leadership of AWARE and its standing in civil society.
Constance Singam has served AWARE for more than two decades. She was Pr...
