Gender Equality

S Korea's economy must top Park Geun-hye's agenda

3 Mar 2013

South Korea's recently-inaugurated president, Park Geun-hye, has perhaps the most unenviable job of all Northeast Asia's new leaders. A host of challenges await her attention, the biggest being an...

Xi's 'southern tour' speech shows why women's rights must advance

4 Feb 2013

A speech Xi Jinping made during his "southern tour" last month is being circulated within party ranks, veteran journalist Gao Yu said in an article published on the website of the German...

Paternity leave plan labelled ridiculous by gender equality campaigners

3 Jan 2013

The government's proposal to give new fathers three days' paid leave when it already grants its civil servants five days' paternity leave has been condemned as absurd by a group campaigning for...

Can South Korea's first woman president, Park Geun-hye, deliver on gender equality?

20 Dec 2012

Park Geun-hye, South Korea's first woman president, will lead a country that is ranked below the likes of Suriname and the United Arab Emirates in gender equality.

Park becomes South Korea's first woman president

20 Dec 2012

Conservative Park Geun-hye, the daughter of South Korea's former dictator, became the country's first woman president last night. Her liberal rival Moon Jae-in conceded defeat with Park ahead by...

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Asia still an unequal place despite its female leaders

Is South Korea ready for "Madame President" to become part of the national vernacular?

The answer to the question that has dominated dinner-table, water-cooler and executive-suite chatter...

'Women to play bigger role' in accounting

The first woman to break through to become president of the Hong Kong Institute of Certified Public Accountants says women are poised to play an increasingly important leadership role in the...

Hong Kong mulls quota for female directors

Is quota the right answer to gender imbalance in corporate boards? That's the big debate not just here in Hong Kong but in Europe as well.

SOCIETY

Women the answer to Japan's ailing economy

If Japan is to turn its economy around it must call on its women.

As more older people live longer, the workforce that supports them gets smaller. The result is rising welfare costs and a...

Businesses short-sighted not to let women flourish

Barber Conable, former president of the World Bank, once said: "Women are half of the world's population, yet they do two-thirds of the world's work, earn one-tenth of the world's income, and own...

CORPORATE GOVERNANCE

Chamber chief says supply behind lack of women on HK boards

When it comes to women board members, or rather the lack of them, it is more a supply-side problem than one caused by lax demand, says Chamber of Hong Kong Listed Companies chairman Lo Ka-shui.