KUALA LUMPUR: Malaysia is expected to have 55 percent of women in its labour force by 2015, said Women, Family and Community Development Ministry's secretary-general Datuk Dr Noorul Ainur Mohd Nur.
She said various programmes would be implemented to achieve the target, which included flexible working hours, working from home and providing childcare centres at workplaces.
"According to the World Bank Report, as at 2011, the female labour force participation rate in Malaysia was 47.9 percent, which was below average of other East Asia and Pacific countries", she told reporters after launching the World Development Report 2012 on Gender Equality and Development, here.
Noorul Ainur said 71 childcare centres had been established at various government agencies and 20 in the private sector for working mothers.
The World Development Report 2012 on Gender Equality and Development says improving women's access to jobs and economic opportunities could significantly boost productivity in the region.
Noorul Ainur hoped the relevant stakeholders would fully use the report to ensure the strategies and initiatives geared towards gender equality in Malaysia were on par with international standards.
She said the RM50mil allocation for women in the 2013 Budget would also be used to train women as company board members to help achieve the government's target of having at least 30 percent women at the decision-making level.
The budget would also be used for the Single Mothers Skills Incubator Programme (I-KIT) in entrepreneurship, Get Malaysian Business Online programme to train 50,000 online small entrepreneurs and providing free mammogram screenings, she added. - Bernama
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