Gender Discrimination In Malaysia

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.

Gender discrimination in malaysia. However to attract more women to join and rejoin the workforce the gender wage gap needs to be addressed. I will take that invitation and begin to talk about gender inequality and women in malaysia. This means that if an individual is refused employment on the sole ground that he is a transgender for example he may not have a cause of action to sue his employer for discrimination. As for countries like thailand as high as 44 male 40 female and malaysia 23 male 38 female the employees in these two countries are facing high discrimination in the region.

Prohibitions on discrimination under malaysian statutes are limited to very specific instances. Recent report on international gender equality. 12 13 malaysia ranked extremely low 102 of the 136 countries in the global gender gap index based on statistical data on male female gaps in education economic mobility health and participation in political roles. Most support achieving equality but close to half think things have gone far enough when it comes to giving women equal rights.

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 a. New survey research by women s aid organisation wao and research agency vase ai supports the urgent call to amend the employment act 1955. Though this is an option held more by malaysian women 65 than malaysian men 45. In malaysia 55 agree with this too.

Malaysia ratified the convention on the elimination of all forms of discrimination against women cedaw in august 1995 with reservations. When the female labour participation rate flpr in malaysia climbed to 54 1 in 2015 from 46 8 in 2010 it was estimated to have contributed an additional 0 3 percentage points to gdp growth per annum. Let s look at the gender gap report which first started in 2006 and look at how we fared in 2014. According to the world economic forum 2013 table 3b pp.