Gender Discrimination In Malaysia

New survey research by women s aid organisation wao and research agency vase ai supports the urgent call to amend the employment act 1955.

Gender discrimination in malaysia. According to a survey by the women s aid organisation wao 56 percent of women in malaysia have experienced at least one form of gender discrimination in the workplace. I will take that invitation and begin to talk about gender inequality and women in malaysia. Let s look at the gender gap report which first started in 2006 and look at how we fared in 2014. Examples of sex discrimination includes not giving the women the chance to hold a pose and not hiring women for a job because of the mentality that they will not fit to be in a particular job.

Perhaps what s most frustrating is that malaysia ranked 104 out of 144 countries indicating that gender inequality is still a very real issue in our country. 56 of malaysian women have experienced at least one form of gender discrimination in the workplace according to the voices of malaysian women on discrimination harassment in the workplace survey undertaken by the women s aid organisation. There is one case of gender discrimination at workplace between beatrice fernandez and malaysia airlines that as held in 2004. No discrimination on grounds of race descent place of birth or gender this challenge is illustrated in the case of noorfadilla bt ahmad saikin v chayed bin basirun ors 2012 1 mlj 832 where the court had to decide whether termination on the grounds of a person s pregnancy was an act of discrimination based on gender contrast with the position in the uk.

Certain reservations were removed in 2010 but some were maintained namely articles 9 2 16 1 a 16 1 c 16 1 f and 16 1 g as these articles were said to be in conflict with the malaysian federal constitution and islamic law shari. According to the women family and community development minister datuk rohani abdul karim the government is working to introduce a gender equality act to deal with discrimination against women at workplace and also looking to amend other existing laws such as the employment act the pensions act the penal code and the domestic violence act to accommodate the proposed gender equality law. Malaysia ratified the convention on the elimination of all forms of discrimination against women cedaw in august 1995 with reservations. Representatives from united nations suhakam pusat komas and others with petaling jaya mp maria chin abdullah at the launch of the malaysia racial discrimination report 2018.