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 We Can! at AWARE for an exploration of the complex role that gender plays in the Hindu religion, particularly the two major epics: the Ramayana and the Mahabharata.
Religious epics and mythology have an influence on historical and contemporary understandings of gender. Examining the subtle o...
Tolerance must not mean the toleration of any form of discrimination, justified in the name of tradition, religion or culture. Rather, engagement with diversity must be founded on the recognition of our common humanity, over and above differences that are ultimately only skin-deep.
By Wong Pei Chi,...
The Obedient Wives Club is an opportunity to discuss how archaic gender roles impede engagement with today's social problems.
By Mohamed Imran Mohamed Taib
Like many Singaporeans, I was initially amused when news broke about a group of Malaysians setting up an Obedient Wives Club (OWC).
B...
Gender equality featured prominently in the early stages of many religions. This needs to be more widely known.
There are too many important stories about women of faith that we do not know well enough, or do not know at all. These stories may well change our expectations for gender equality in...
When policy-makers make decisions that profoundly affect the lives of people, are they able to suspend the influence of personal factors, such as sex, race and religion? That, says CONSTANCE SINGAM, was the question she was posing in her article A Secular Society Interrupted, and not the question of...
Those who argue that a secular system is lacking in values are being arrogant and patronising, says CONSTANCE SINGAM as she continues her discussion about secularism. They deny the possibility of moral human beings whose actions are governed by their innate sense of goodness.
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