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Women in Singapore, particularly those who have joined Singapore's workforce, are faced with balancing their traditional and modern-day roles in Singaporean society and economy. According to the book The Three Paradoxes: Working Women in Singapore written by Jean Lee S.K., Kathleen Campbell, and Audrey Chia, there are "three paradoxes ...
The SCWO works in several different areas to represent the interests of women in Singapore and to coordinate the efforts of the various different women's groups it represents. [1] [2] This umbrella organisation also helps to support government policies in Singapore. [1] It has advocated for change in women's rights in the country. [2]
AWARE has kept the rights of foreign spouses on Singapore policy-makers' agendas. AWARE worked with members of parliament to highlight the lack of rights and support for migrant spouses, particularly foreign wives of Singaporean citizen men, as a key women's rights matter at the UN Human Rights Council in June 2016.
The Singapore Council of Women (SCW) was an organization based in Singapore. The group advocated for women's rights and was especially vocal on issues relating to women and marriage. The SCW also made sure it had a good relationship with the media, and wrote often to newspapers about women's issues. SCW lectured on women's rights in various ...
The women's liberation movement in Singapore was energized in 1975, during the observance of the International Women's Year. [57] That same year the National Council of Women (NCW) was formed in order to coordinate the activities of women's groups in the country and to help end discrimination against women. [ 57 ]
Singaporean women's rights activists (13 P) V. ... Pages in category "Women's rights in Singapore" The following 2 pages are in this category, out of 2 total.
Chinese-educated women leaders came into prominence as the proportion of women voters expanded from 8% to 50% in the 1955 elections. However, some of these Chinese-educated leaders, such as Linda Chen Mock Hock , were linked to communism and thus were subsequently repressed by the fiercely anti-communist Lim Yew Hock administration.
According to Amnesty International, Singapore has signed the following international agreements relating to human rights: [51] Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women (CEDAW) Convention on the Rights of the Child (CRC) Optional Protocol to the CRC on the involvement of children in armed conflict in 2008