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Council goes one up for women with new panel

 

THE STAR Friday February 25, 2011

BUKIT MERTAJAM: A Gender Mainstreaming Ad-hoc Committee will be set up in the Seberang Prai Municipal Council to ensure gender fairness in the council’s policies and operations. Council president Mokhtar Mohd Jait said the committee would, among others, promote fairness in terms of job opportunities, wages, promotion and resource allocations in the municipality. “I have agreed in principle to the forming of a Gender Mainstreaming Ad-hoc Committee as suggested by councillor Sim Chee Keong in his adjournment speech,” he said after chairing a full council meeting here yesterday. Sim said the committee, which was believed to be the first of its kind in the country, would help provide women equal opportunities and benefits in male-dominated environments. He said almost 36% of the council’s current workforce were women which he described as a positive sign. He, however, noted that there were only three women state assemblymen in Penang and three women councillors in the Seberang Prai Municipal Council. Bukit Mertajam Member of Parliament Chong Eng, who is also Wanita DAP chief, praised the council for taking the step.

Source: http://thestar.com.my/metro/story.asp?file=/2011/2/25/north/8135046&sec=North

I am a real man

Help us to send out the message that Real Men do not abuse and control women, and that it’s time for a new definition of masculinity. Pass this video on to your friends and post this on your Facebook page, then tell us what you think a ‘Real Man’ is by posting comments.This video is a version of a Palindrome in which a voiceover is used to read the words appearing on the screen from top to bottom, and then reverses itself reading each line up the page and back to the top, changing the meaning of each statement.

Local Democracy Week

Local Democracy Week (click here) is coming to Penang! From Monday December 6th to Sunday December 12th, lots of activities are being organised, covering crucial aspects of our democracy and local involvement. Start your own activity! Anything goes! Get excited! Get involved!

Here’s the core activity programme:

KEMPEN RAKYAT PULAU PINANG

How you can become involved?

Invitation to a 2 day workshop: Understanding Gender Better

8.30am-5.00pm, 30-31st October,

Red Rock Hotel, Penang

 

From our previous workshops and recent conference this year, 3Gs has had many requests for further information on gender and how it impacts on all of us. As such 3Gs would like to invite you to a two day workshop on Understanding Gender Better at Red Rock Hotel, 202A Jalan Macalister, Penang, 30 and 31st October 2001, 8.30am to 5.00pm.

 

The topics covered will included the basics about gender, how it impacts on all of us, the link with good governance and the wider context of rights. Please see attached for the draft programme. The trainers will include Dr Cecilia Ng, Visiting Professor Women’s Development and Research Centre (KANITA), Universiti Sains Malaysia and Dr Prema Devaraj, Programme Director from the Women’s Centre for Change, Penang (WCC). Participants are required to register for the workshop in advance. There is a registration fee of RM20. The registration form is attached. Please fill up the form and fax it to the 3Gs office or email your details to the 3Gs office before 25th October 2010.

For further information, please contact the 3Gs office at 04-2290243 (tel and fax no) or 010-3842583 and speak with either Ms Ooi Ai Lyn or Mr Mohd Hariszuan (haris.3gs@gmail.com).

Red Rock Hotel Map (Please click here)

Registration Form (Please click here)

3Gs Conference 2010

Gender Mainstreaming: Justice For All
Date: 31 July – 1 August
Venue: Paradise Sandy Beach Resort, Tanjung Bungah, Penang

See here for more info!