Gender equity in the Sarawak State Civil Service
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THE SARAWAK MUSEUM JOURNAL |
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Title :
Gender Equity in The Sarawak State Civil. |
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Author :
Hew Cheng Sim, Song Saw Imm and Rasidah Mahdi. |
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Abstract:
WHY GENDER EQUITY? We start this paper with this question because it was posed to me by a senior state government official who wanted to know why a study on gender equity in the civil service was required in the first place. We decided that this is a good starting point in which to place this study in context. Gender equity is an issue of human rights based on the ideal of equal rights of all human beings regardless of gender. Gender equity is therefore a matter of social justice and social transformation aimed at enhancing the quality of human life through women’s improved position in society. An integral part of this concept is the ideal of fairness in our treatment of both women and men. The commitment of the Malaysian government towards gender equity was affirmed when the UN Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women (CEDAW)was ratified in 1995 and the national reporton Malaysia’s progress was presented in the UN in 2006. An outcome of the ratification of CEDAW was the amendment to the Federal Constitution in 2001, where Article 8(2) of the Constitution was amended to include the word ‘gender’as one of the grounds in which discrimination is prohibited (Ministry of Women, Family and Community Development, 2007: 27)
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| DOI: XXXX |
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How to cite:
Hew Cheng Sim, Song Saw Imm and Rasidah Mahdi (2007). Gender Equity in The Sarawak State Civil. The Sarawak Museum Journal, LXIV (85): 1-34 |
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