KUALA LUMPUR – Datuk Seri Anwar Ibrahim has called for a clear changes to increase women’s participation in top-level decision-making in the private sector, including at government-linked companies and government-linked investment companies.
The prime minister said this was important as women made up only 29% of company board members in the private sector as at December 31, 2022, according to a report from the Securities Commission.
Female participation at the top levels of government had increased but there was still room for improvement, he said.
“In the public sector, the number of women civil servants at the decision-making level in the top grade C and above has increased to 38.8%.
“In the political sector, although the 15th general election results show that the percentage of women MPS dropped from 14.9% in 2021 to 13.5% in 2022, there was an increase in women candidates,” he said when officiating at the International Women’s Day 2023 celebration here today. – Bernama, March 8, 2023
