Women in Singapore and Asia face disproportionate burdens of care work at home and discrimination at the workplace. As population ageing advances, rising dependency ratios will increasingly present a challenge to women’s ability to participate and compete in the workplace. This panel discusses the current state of challenges to women's advancement: is there evidence of progress, what are the key obstacles today, and how can we improve the well-being of half of the population? Panellists (Associate Professor Teo You Yenn, Provost’s Chair, and Head of Sociology at the Nanyang Technological University; Visiting Associate Professor Andrew Francis-Tan, Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy, NUS; Assistant Professor Sonia Akter, Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy, NUS) and moderator (Assistant Professor Tan Poh Lin, Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy, NUS) will touch on gender disparities in care work in Singapore, barriers to women’s economic advancement in Asia, and the White Paper on Women's Development in Singapore, including the lift on the ban of social egg freezing.
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