The Women's Charter

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With the government's announcement that a review on women’s issues in Singapore will be conducted to look more closely at how gender equality can be more deeply ingrained in Singapore society, we thought to explore the evolution of gender issues in Singapore. The Women's Charter provides a central lens for such an exploration, tracing its origins to pre-independent Singapore and being the platform for debates such as whether men should be entitled to maintenance after divorce or whether NS should extend to women.

Join Margaret Thomas, President of AWARE, as she banters with Rovik on some of these sticky issues, and provide your own take by commenting on our FB Page or our Instagram. What else needs to be done for gender issues in Singapore?

Sources:

1. A Singaporean Woman’s Rights under the Women’s Charter
2. AWARE Saga Podcast
3. Our Lives to Live - Singapore Women's Charter: Revolution or Evolution, Malathi Das
4. Singapore Council of Women's Organisations
5. Wikipedia
6. MPs debate maintenance payouts for men - Straits Times
7. Women's Charter should be Family Charter - Straits Times
8. Ensure Women's Charter does not become tool for discrimination - Straits Times
9. Proposed maintenance for ex-husbands to go ahead - Straits Times
10. Is the Women’s Charter Unfair to Men? - AWARE
11. First Reading of Women's Charter (Amendment) Bill 2019
12. Fewer marriages, more divorces in Singapore last year (2020) - CNA