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04 December 2017

DPM Says Shahrizat should be given an important position after the general election.

Zahid: Shahrizat should get 'important post' after GE14
KUALA LUMPUR: Datuk Seri Dr Ahmad Zahid Hamidi has hinted that Barisan Nasional will field more women candidates in the 14th general election.
The Barisan Nasional deputy chairman said he believed that women should be the backbone of Malaysia's politics, with the strength of Tan Sri Shahrizat Abdul Jalil's stewardship.
He said Shahrizat, the current Wanita Umno chief and Wanita Barisan chairman, should be given an important position after the general election.
“I will whisper to the Prime Minister (Datuk Seri Najib Tun Razak) to have more women (candidates) in the general election.
Dr Ahmad Zahid, who is also Deputy Prime Minister, pointed out that the ruling Barisan government had constantly pushed for more women to be fielded as candidates in the elections.
“The same goes to the coming general election, which is very near.
“Women empowerment is meaningless if their voice is not heard in politics. Luckily in Malaysia, there have been positive results as far as having more women's voice in politics is concerned,” he said.
Dr Ahmad Zahid said Malaysia had put in place various initiatives to see more participation of women in the public and private sectors.
As for the public sector, he said Malaysia had done extremely well as it had exceeded the target of having at least 30% of women at the decision-making level.
“The actual achievement stands at 35.8% while in the corporate sector, our women have achieved 29.9%. As the target is 30%, I leave it to you to do the calculation of how close we are to achieving it,” he said.
Sharing one of Malaysia's many success stories, the Deputy Prime Minister said the Global Entrepreneurship Monitoring Report 2016/2017, released recently, had ranked Malaysia fourth in gender equality in entrepreneurship behind Brazil, Mexico and Indonesia.
“What does this mean? It means that the number of women entrepreneurs in Malaysia has caught up with that of men,” he said. - Bernama

Read more at https://www.thestar.com.my/news/nation/2017/12/04/zahid-hamidi-more-women-general-election/#BlDqZQKIZxAgZW7Q.99

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