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The Productive and Non-(Re) productive Women: Sites of Economic Growth in Malaysia
Shanthi Thambiah 숙명여자대학교 아시아여성연구원 2010 Asian Women Vol.26 No.2
This paper is a critical revisit of the New Economic Policy and the New Population Policy of Malaysia. It attempts to inspect how a woman’s body (fertility) and her labor has been the site or location from which the economic growth of the country was dependent on but has never been recognized. The paper examines women’s contribution in the economy and their contribution to the economic growth of Malaysia. These contributions and changes were plotted against the changes in the policy domain with a focus on the New Economic Policy (NEP) and the New Population Policy (NPP) to see if there was any relationship between them. The paper also discusses that women have not always responded in line with policy calls especially in relation to their fertility but they have contributed significantly in the structural changes of the Malaysian economy. These responses are examined as a form of gender struggle within a fragmented and contradictory policy domain and within the context of very little gender equity/equality concerns in society and the policy domain. How these responses contributed in real terms to economic development and the overall growth of the country but with insignificant distributive effect for women contrary to the New Economic Policy’s claim is critically analyzed in this paper.
Transcending Gender Roles in the Domestics Realm : Some Emering Trends among Malaysian Families
Shanthi Thambiah,Rokiah Talib 숙명여자대학교 아세아여성문제연구소 1999 Asian Women Vol.9 No.-
We conclude by looking at the implications of these findings for Malaysian families in the context of greater participation of women in the work force. Under the Seventh Malaysian Plan the government plans to provide a more favourable working environment for women to ensure their greater participation in the workforce, in wiew of the labour shortage. The private sector, the largest employer of women, will be encouraged to implement women-sensitive policies such as flexible working hours, day care centres and transportation facilities between the home and place of work (The star May 7, 1996).
Household Formation and Egalitarian Gender Relations among the Bhuker of Central Borneo
Thambiah, Shanthi Ewha Womans University Press 1997 Asian Journal of Women's Studies(AJWS) Vol.3 No.3
This paper explores the role played by Bhuket women in the formation of the household. I attempt to show that in this society, the household as it is commonly understood, does not exist. Having been a very mobile hunting and gathering people, the notion of a living arrangement is non-concrete and fluid among the Bhuket. I have examined the concept of the household as emerging from the concept kajan, which refers to a space shared by a group of individuals. Processes are at work for the inception of the household because the provision of daily subsistence of people is increasingly being kept within the confines of the kajan. However, the continued lack of rigidity in their living arrangements and an absence of power differentials in the context of marital and kinship relationships have led to the persistence of egalitarian gender relations among the Bhuket.