Thank you and I am happy that my comments have helped you. I am afraid our culture has not matured enough nor the people in authority feel secure enough in their sense of identity to enable them to respect opposing views.

We have been socialised in cultures and religions that are patriarchal, authoritarian and hierarchical. It will take us a long time to shed these values and attitudes.

AWARE’s objective is to raise awareness about these inherently negative attitudes and values of the patriarchal system which people who hold democratic values, such as feminists, believe are damaging to human relationships and well-being.

Hope for change rests with young people such as yourself. best of luck.

Constance Singam

Incidently, I like to requote here with MM Lee Kuan Yew in today The Sunday Times when he was touching about Racial Harmony Issue:- ” This is an ideal which may never completed reach, but because we have this ideal, we will continue to make progress.”

AWARE also spells out loud & clear that its mission is to identify areas for improvement in gender equality, encourage positive change, and support women in realising their highest potential.

Smile & cheer!

This writing has inspired me; thank you.

Ironically, some women also feel uncomfortable when their rights are promoted because they don’t like to focus on their issues and they don’t like to hear men complaining about women’s rights.

It’s a lot to do with education – so that men don’t have to feel threatened and that women realise that they are entitled to rights that they may not even know about.

It’s about being first, AWARE, and second, doing something about it, which AWARE is valiantly doing for the sake of women who have suffered before and women who will suffer less in the future!

Keep up the good work!

Thank you for all your reasoned comments on the $90k question.

Since the media conference of July 6, Boardroom has confirmed a donation of $3,000 back to AWARE. This brings the sum total “recovered” in the form of donations from service providers to the EGM to $11,000. Together with the $98, 765.70 worth of membership fees, we have more than covered expenses incurred by the previous Exco for the EGM.

While we will have to speed up on fund-raising activities asap, having lost two over months to the EGM and ensuing weeks, you are all right to think that any legal recourse is going to be protracted and costly. It is not a clear cut case. And the publicity could hardly be beneficial to AWARE. Better to get on with the job – which is to identify and eliminate the areas of gender discrimination still in our society and to empower women to realise their full potential. See you all some time!

This year, AWARE will focus on strengthening our capacity in research and advocacy and our outreach to women across Singapore. We look forward to touching base with you.

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The donations by Rajah and Tann, D&T and Boardroom are also a pleasant surprise.