The Women's Foundation is delighted to be collaborating with the South China Morning Post and the Hong Kong Economic Journal over the publication of a monthly column on women and gender issues in print and online. The column is published on the first Friday of every month in SCMP's highly regarded opinion page and Chinese translations of the same articles are posted on Hong Kong Economic Journal's TWF Blog page.
In addition to opinion pieces authored by The Women's Foundation, we invite leading voices from the private and public sector to contribute articles on women and gender issues, resulting in a collection of pieces that span the spectrum of important topics and themes, from women and health and social welfare to women in the workforce, from girls and youth issues to gender stereotyping in the media and the economic imperative for giving women equal access to education and jobs.
Please feel free to comment on our posts below or drop us a line at info@thewomensfoundationhk.org with ideas for new topics and contributors.
Early last month, a group of foreign domestic helpers protested against the requirement that they live with their employers. They disagreed with the requirement's rationale that living-in is necessary because it offers them support in a city where rent is extortionate and migrant women are vulnerabl...
The government appears to be taking the issue of our ageing population seriously, with Financial Secretary John Tsang Chun-wah making it a focus of his latest budget report. Policy debate seems to concentrate on two areas - reversing the low fertility rate of young women and addressing the burden of...
The gang rape and subsequent death of the 23-year-old student in New Delhi last month sparked large-scale protests in India and outrage elsewhere. The widespread discrimination and violence against women and girls in India, the world's largest democracy with a growing economy, is appalling.
In Hong...
If Hong Kong is to be a world-class city, it is going to have to bring its parental leave entitlements up to global standards. According to the International Labour Organisation, at least 49 countries in the world provide some form of paternity leave. Recent developments to introduce a law granting ...
In reasonably affluent societies, life expectancy is now increasing at around half an hour per day. This is based on a reasonable extrapolation of trends around medical research linked to preventative as well as restorative health care. It means that anyone under the age of 20 has a 90 per cent chan...