KUALA LUMPUR, Nov 14 — Prime Minister Datuk Seri Anwar Ibrahim today said it would be unfair if women were not given equal opportunities to take on leadership roles.
Anwar noted that most personnel in the police and armed forces were men, citing the physically demanding nature of the work.
However, he acknowledged that women could also take on physically demanding duties.
“While we give space to women, there are also duties where there are many women, in education and medical. What we can focus now, in universities, more than 50 per cent are women, and now the results of examinations and tests, women outperform men, so it’s not fair if we don’t give them equal treatment,” he said during a question-and-answer session with female trainees at the National Service Training Programme 3.0 here.
