In a review of International Women’s Month, MWGF says policies, while well-intentioned, may lack a holistic gender lens. It is therefore vital to ensure they are evidence-based and solutions oriented, tackling problems at their root, or else we are merely being performative.
The recent shooting incident at KLIA 1 serves as a stark reminder of the urgent need to address violence against women in our society, and how it can lead to murder.
Social pressure may make it difficult for prospective parents to resist using new genetic technologies, says Dr Alexis Heng Boon Chin. This could be further exacerbated by the aggressive sales pitch and sly marketing gimmicks of profit-driven private fertility clinics, resulting in the unnecessary and wanton use of IVF and other clinical assisted reproduction techniques, which were originally developed and intended for the treatment of infertility.