GENDER EQUALITY LAWS

LAWS to deal with discrimination against women is in the works, said Women, Family and Community Development Minister Datuk Rohani Abdul Karim. “We are currently enacting a Gender Equality Act. We have been doing a lot of engagement to solidify our aim to draft the Act,” Rohani told the Dewan Rakyat. She was responding to Teo Nie Ching (DAP-Kulai) who urged the government to improve laws to better protect women from discrimination in the workplace.