It is difficult for anyone to be carrying the main load of caregiving, even more so if you have to do it alone. And let’s face it – Singapore’s women are still expected to shoulder this responsibility in this time and age.
We want Singapore’s women to realise their full potential. So, we are enthused over the three Learning Journeys presented during Support for SG Families, our Women’s Wing (WW) Annual Conference at the end of last month (Jul 29). As ...
Every year, our Women’s Wing (WW) gathers for a conference where activists, community partners and Members of Parliament (MPs) past and present share the latest, best ways to continue improving the lives of Singapore’s women. Accordingly, this ...
Go out to work? Stay home and care for our loved ones? Or juggle both these roles as best as we can each day? As Singaporean women, we face these choices each day. We are expected to be (just to name a
Ever since the early year of 1959. That is how long we have campaigned for women’s rights, with pioneers like Member of Parliament Chan Choi Siong successfully lobbying for the Women’s Charter which makes both sexes equal before the law. Other
In a Singapore Made-For-Families, family violence goes against our fundamental values. Accordingly, our MPs passed laws today (Jul 4) which better protect survivors of family violence and which strengthen the Government’s ability to intervene ...
PAP Women’s Wing celebrates Mother’s Day with a bang! Besides launching an online repository of heritage recipes to honour our mothers, it has raised over half a million dollars to provide supermarket vouchers to mothers and children in need.
To begin, some statistics about women in Singapore: Minister of State for Social and Family Development Sun Xueling shared this information with the United Nations last Thursday (Mar 9) at the 67th session of the Commission on the Status of Women. Wh
The People’s Action Party (PAP) remains steadfast in its advocacy for women’s equality. Speaking at the PAP Women’s Wing International Women’s Day Commemoration this past Saturday (Mar 4), Deputy Prime Minister Lawrence Wong said that the Party has b ...
Despite being an island of plenty, we are lacking in space — space to dispose of our waste. With only one single landfill due to run out of space by 2035, Garden City could very well turn into Garbage City if we
The PAP’s roots involve recognising just how important women are in building a nation. And the Party’s Women’s Wing remains committed, through initiatives like #ActionForHer, towards championing women’s needs and causes. “Although much has been done, ...