The government is still in the process of drafting a legal framework to address gender discrimination, Deputy Prime Minister Dr Wan Azizah Wan Ismail said.
"These sessions will continue with the participation of other interested parties. Discrimination is gender-blind and we do not want men and women discriminating one another," she told the media after opening the Malaysian edition of the 2020 Safer Internet Day programme in Putrajaya today. Wan Azizah meanwhile added that the Women, Family and Community Development Ministry was now focusing on the Sexual Harassment Bill which is expected to be tabled in Parliament this March.
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