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Minister Safadi: Supporting women’s employment stimulates economic growth
26-6-2019
In cooperation with the Friedrich Naumann Foundation for Freedom (FNF), the Future Movement’s Women’s Sector held yesterday its annual conference under the theme, ‘Women… the promising investment in tomorrow’. The event focused on the economic and development viability of women’s participation in decision-making positions, on the one hand, and on reforming laws that discriminate against women, on the other. A number of recommendations were issued at the end of the conference, notably the following: shifting from slogans to implementation; ratification of a nationality law that gives women the right to confer nationality to their children; banning child marriage; kicking a national initiative aimed to eliminate all forms of discrimination against women in the laws, and finally amendment of the labor and social security codes commensurate with equality in benefits and entitlements between female and male workers. During the conference, the head of FNF Beirut Office, Dirk Kunze, demanded the change of the unjust laws which deprive women of their rights. For her part, the minister of state for the economic empowerment of women and youth, Violette Safadi, stressed the need for plans to motivate the contribution of women in economic development, pointing out that effective support for women enables them to assume their role in bolstering economic growth, reducing inequality and strengthening the financial capacities of households, and hence of society at large. Safadi also stated that the rate of educational attainment of women in Lebanon is nearly 70%, but that it drops to 30% at the recruitment stage to fall back to less than 23% after marriage. She attributed this to the absence of appropriate legislations which allow women to keep their jobs, in addition to the prevalent societal traditions. (Al Mustaqbal, June 25, 2019)
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