Gender wage gap needs to be reduced, says Nancy

 

Women, family and community development minister Nancy Shukri said women should be paid the same as men if they were equally qualified. (Bernama pic)

PETALING JAYA: 

Immediate action must be taken to address the wage gap between male and female graduates in the country, says women, family and community development minister Nancy Shukri.

“We need to speak up about this issue because there should be no disparity,” she said at a 2025 International Women’s Day event in Putrajaya today.

“If the women’s qualifications are equal to the men’s, then their income should be the same,” she said in a Bernama report.

She added that the government would review related policies to put an end to workplace discrimination against women.

Nancy was commenting on a recent report by the statistics department which found that female graduates earn RM900 less than their male counterparts on average despite having equivalent academic qualifications.

In 2023, a World Economic Forum report stated that the gender wage gap in Malaysia remains one of the worst in the world.

The Global Gender Gap 2023 ranked Malaysia 102nd among 146 countries assessed.

Among Asean countries, Malaysia was ahead of only Myanmar, a country that has been mired in internal conflict for decades. - FMT