Education ushers women into workforce
Gender inequality in education is still palpable in Cambodia, causing women to be undervalued in the workplace and their potential to be untapped, the Under Secretary of State at the Ministry of Women’s Affairs said during the celebration of the United Nations International Day of the Girl at the Harpswell Foundation in Phnom Penh yesterday. …
American-based Harpswell foundation is an NGO in Cambodia that countervails this development through empowering a new generation of women leaders in Cambodia and the developing world. It provides education, housing and leadership training to children and young women. …
“In Cambodia, women account for more than 50 per cent of the overall population, so I am sure that the country will not attain great achievements unless women are allowed to take part,” she [Hem Davy, a law major at the Royal University of Law and Economics] said.
