Yuki Aizawa said although Malaysia is seen as progressive in empowering women’s rights, it lacks the needed support to ensure women could excel in STEAM and other fields theSun theSundaily women tech arts STEM Malaysia
: Countries that aspire to advance economically must recognise the importance of women participation in the science, technology, engineering, arts, and mathematics field.
“These organisations have no choice but to come in with sustainability reports and transparency including salary scale, gender pay gap, hiring and retention, among other issues. With these forced factors, cultural shifts will happen and women will have the avenue to speak up and discuss related issues more freely,“ said Aizawa.
“For example, where there is one women and 10 men working in a technical field, and they have to work overtime, this could be a scary space for women. Therefore, mandates such as anti-sexual harassment have to be put in place,“ she said. “Even girls in schools are doing better than boys. But data showed only 34 per cent of STEAM graduates are women in this country. In the labour force, women make up only 35 per cent of the digital economy, and 55 per cent in the overall economy,“ she said.
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