He stressed the wisdom of sticking to a system where people advance on the basis of their merits.
SINGAPORE - Helping women to achieve their full potential at work is not a matter of setting quotas to ensure workplace representation, but of avoiding blinkers and recognising the full range of their abilities, said President Tharman Shanmugaratnam.
Singapore’s adjusted gender pay gap of about 6 per cent – a measure of gaps between women’s and men’s pay after taking into account differences in job roles – is also lower than in the US and Canada, he said. What employers can and should do is pay attention to the full range of abilities women may bring, and avoid measuring them on “only the metrics of achievement that men may be most comfortable with”.
About 400 people attended the event, which saw experts discussing obstacles to gender equality in Singapore and Asia in areas such as ageing, caregiving and the gender pay gap. “Caregiving has become so feminised that women remain responsible for resolving care needs, even when they are working, which impedes their progress at work.”
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