April 2012 - Penang Monthly

An Overview of Women’s Organisations in Penang

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WOMEN’S CENTRE FOR CHANGE PENANGThe Women’s Centre for Change Penang (formerly the Women’s Crisis Centre), better known as WCC, was register...

Honest Memoirs From An Extraordinary Lady

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This much-awaited volume lives up to all reasonable expectations and should be read by anyone – historian, lawyer or layman – interested in Penang,...

Hooking The Young on Heritage

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George Town’s heritage built environment played a significant role in its listing as a Unesco World Heritage Site and the city boasts the largest concentr...

Of Women Artists and Their Art

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In this era of the Super Woman, the purportedly weaker sex has to juggle her duties as wife, mother, daughter-in-law, daughter, sister, career woman or home/ fa...

Should Men Still Hold The Door Open for Women?

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NO, says Chung HosannaEven in heels, I tend to walk ahead of my companions. Chances are I’ll reach the door first, even before a tall man whose stride f...

Of Menstrual Blood and Chicken Rice

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A play called “Vagina Warriors” in Malaysia? I didn’t know what to expect. The classic play by Eve Ensler, “Vagina Monologues”, wa...

Gender Equality and The Millennium Development Goals

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Malaysia: The Millennium Development Goals at 2010 paints a general but holistic picture of the status of Malaysia since the midterm review in 2005. I was impre...

Women: Economy and Employment

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The 2009 International Labour Organization (ILO) report on Global Employment Trends for Women warned that, with the deepening of the recession in 2009, the glob...

Gender Issues are About Democracy

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A prominent woman politician recently lamented the enormous difficulty faced to achieve the United Nation's (UN) target of 30% women participation in Malaysia....

Opting Out – Choice or Circumstance ?

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When a woman opts out of the workforce, is it choice or circumstance?In both cases, the catalyst to this situation is motherhood which affects women at all le...

Martina Rozells – Penang’s first First Lady

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During the year 1772 Light allied himself with Martina Rozells, a lady regarding whose antecedents an element of romance has been attributed by some contempor...

Empowering Selangor Women

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The Selangor Women’s Affairs portfolio is led by YB Rodziah Ismail. Under the previous Barisan Nasional-led state government, it was possible for the stat...