MP SPEAKS | Reforms in limbo with the toppling of a legitimately elected government via a coup.
Former US president Barack Obama said: “You can judge a nation, and how successful it will be, based on how it treats its women and girls."
The Sexual Harassment Act and anti-stalking laws were scheduled to be tabled in this session of Parliament. However, this will not happen due to the change in government. Besides this, there were five women in Harapan’s cabinet, a step forward although it couldn’t uphold a 30 percent quota of female representation in federal and state governments.
There is also a lingering fear that there would be a rollback on these hard-earned feminist gains, especially with PAS and their equally regressive coalition partners in the government. It’s not an exaggeration to say that in Malaysia and everywhere else in the world, women work harder but earn less and experience heightened violence both at home and in public spaces.
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