{"id":41991,"date":"2020-11-19T03:41:39","date_gmt":"2020-11-18T19:41:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dapmalaysia.org\/en\/?p=41991"},"modified":"2020-11-19T03:41:39","modified_gmt":"2020-11-18T19:41:39","slug":"dap-sabah-calls-upon-state-government-to-empower-women-in-all-sectors","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dapmalaysia.org\/en\/dap-sabah-calls-upon-state-government-to-empower-women-in-all-sectors\/","title":{"rendered":"DAP Sabah calls upon state government to empower women in all sectors"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/dapmalaysia.org\/en\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/jannie.l-1024x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-17588\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Sabah DAP Wanita Chief and ADUN for Kapayan, Jannie Lasimbang urges the Sabah state government to involve and empower women in all sectors, including in decision-making and policymaking.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Jannie said that the state government must make genuine effort to hit the target of appointing 30% women at the various levels and sectors of government.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>She emphasised that women\u2019s participation in policymaking and decision-making matters as they can drive the development and advancement of a country.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cEven so, Sabah is yet to achieve this&nbsp;national and international target.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Therefore, the Sabah government can take the first step by appointing capable women as customary leaders, JPKK, Chinese Community Leaders, and JKDB to fulfil this&nbsp;quota.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Further, Jannie also revealed that in the written answer to her question addressed to the Sabah Chief Minister&nbsp;&#8211; only one woman, Datuk Amisah Yassin,&nbsp;had&nbsp;been appointed into the Sabah State Assembly.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This decision has disappointed many women organisations and activists who have been appealing&nbsp;to the Chief Minister to appoint at least two women ADUNs,&nbsp;since only 9.5% of elected ADUNs in Sabah are women.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sabah DAP Wanita Chief and ADUN for Kapayan, Jannie Lasimbang urges the Sabah state government to involve and empower women in all sectors, including in decision-making and policymaking. Jannie said that the state government must make genuine effort to hit the target of appointing 30% women at the various levels and sectors of government. She [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":41992,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[458,769],"tags":[537,823,1246,509],"class_list":{"0":"post-41991","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-current-affairs","8":"category-featured","9":"tag-dap-wanita","10":"tag-jannie-lasimbang","11":"tag-kapayan","12":"tag-women-empowerment"},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dapmalaysia.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41991","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dapmalaysia.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dapmalaysia.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dapmalaysia.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dapmalaysia.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=41991"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dapmalaysia.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41991\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dapmalaysia.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/41992"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dapmalaysia.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=41991"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dapmalaysia.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=41991"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dapmalaysia.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=41991"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}