Asia | Singapore | Career

Singapore Airlines Has Hired its First Female Pilots

Singapore Airlines announced this week that it has hired its first female pilots, two women who were recruited as cadet pilots in August. Prior to taking the controls of a commercial airline, they will have to complete training in Singapore and Australia over the next two to three years. SIA spokesman Nicholas Ionides revealed that the airline has no targets in place in terms of the number of women they’re looking to hire. “We will recruit whoever is the most qualified,” he said. Affiliates SilkAir and Scoot already employ female pilots, but this is a first for the national airline.

Asia | Singapore | Business

Low representation of women on boards in Singapore: Survey

Source: Channel NewsAsia

The representation of women on corporate boards in the Republic is lower than the global figure, according to a report released on Wednesday (Jun 24) by Deloitte Global. In Singapore, women take up 9 per cent of board seats, the survey revealed. This is lower than the global percentage, where women hold 12 per cent of board seats. However, the percentage of women Singapore holding leadership positions in the boardroom is higher as compared to the global percentage. Women make up 7 per cent of board chairpersons in Singapore, while women make up 4 per cent of board leaders globally.

Asia | Singapore | Leadership

Chan Heng Chee – Positive Reinforcement Equalized the Gender Gap

Source: Asia One

As Singapore's ambassador to the United States, I was frequently asked to speak at women's forums for professionals, executives and students. They wanted to learn from women in top positions about how they got there, how to prepare for leadership roles and how to achieve success, however you define it. I believe many young women in Singapore ask those questions as well. The 50th anniversary of the nation's independence gives us time to ask if anything has changed in the issues listed here. At one forum, I was asked a question I had never encountered before. "How did you, an Asian wom

Asia | Singapore | Economy

PAP Women’s Wing launches financial education programme for women

Source: Today Online

The PAP Women’s Wing has rolled out a financial education programme for women to help them understand the basics of financial planning, with a special focus on retirement needs. Despite improvements in women’s participation in the labour force over the years, there remains “a significant gap between women’s lifetime earnings and savings as compared to men’s”, said Dr Amy Khor, Senior Minister of State (Health and Manpower) who is spearheading this programme.

Asia | Singapore | Business

More women directors for SGX-listed firms: Diversity Action Committee

Source: ChannelNewsAsia

The number of women directors on Singapore Exchange (SGX)-listed companies’ boards has increased to 448 in 2014, up 10 per cent from the year before, according to the country’s Diversity Action Committee (DAC). The net increase of 42 women directorships makes up a significant 25 per cent of the total increase in directorships in the year, the committee said in a news release on Thursday (Apr 16). Women’s representation on SGX-listed company boards went up slightly, to 8.8 per cent as at end 2014, compared to 8.3 per cent the year before. Women’s representation on boards was found