A talk on gender discrimination by a speaker from AWARE will be held on Monday, 23rd April from
I will nominate 20 students per GP class to attend this talk. Attendance will be taken.
Please be seated by
Tan Joo Hymn is the Immediate Past President of AWARE (Association of Women for Action and Research). She has served 7 terms on the executive committee in various capacities. Since 2004, she has chaired AWARE’s PopWatch subcommittee, which looked at Singapore’s population issues and is now doing a study on discrimination against pregnant employees. Joo Hymn is also active in various social initiatives. She helped formally register Raleigh Society, a youth volunteer group in Singapore in 2001 and served on the Society’s executive committee from 1999 to 2004. She was part of the team to lead the group’s expeditions to Batam and Tibet in 1998 and 2001 respectively. She is also active in various civil society groups including The Working Committee 1 (TWC1) that brought civil society groups together in multi-party collaborations and The Working Committee 2 (TWC2), which has since become Transient Workers Count Too, working to better working conditions for foreign domestic workers. A graduate of Warwick University in the United Kingdom, Joo Hymn trained as a lawyer and qualified in the United Kingdom, Hong Kong and Singapore. She is also a qualified early childhood teacher and supervisor and had been working as pre-school teacher before becoming a full-time mum. She is continually reinventing herself and enjoys challenges, and believes passionately that every person should be allowed to achieve his or her fullest potential, without being hemmed in by gender stereotypes.
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