AMMAN — Investing in women is vital to strengthening
the national economy, said Wafaa Bani Mustafa, minister of state for legal
affairs and chairperson of the
Ministerial Committee for Women Empowerment,
according to the Jordan News Agency, Petra.
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Patronizing a national conference, the minister pointed
out that boosting women’s role in economic decision-making requires increasing
their participation in the workforce, enhancing their skills, and protecting
them from all forms of violence and discrimination that hinder their progress.
The conference is
titled “Women’s Work: Social Protection and Boosting the Child Daycare Sector,”
organized by the Sadaqa organization and funded by the French embassy. It
tackled improving the quality of services in daycares and expanding social
protections for men and women working in the sector.
It also reviewed the impact of the expansion on
women’s economic participation and labor rights, and discussed ways to update
the national framework for daycares.
The minister pointed to the social protection
systems, saying their design and coverage affect social cohesion and social
justice, the structure of the labor market, the fight against poverty, and the
ability to address “economic shocks”. She said that providing social protection
became more prominent after the COVID-19 pandemic.
She underlined Jordan’s commitment to implementing
the
Sustainable Development Goals, including the fifth and eighth goals on
gender equality and decent work and economic growth, respectively, and
submitting voluntary reports.
She pointed to the
launch of the women’s vision under the Economic Modernization Vision next
November, which will become a road map for the empowerment of women.
The minister also highlighted women’s and young
girls’ unpaid labor within the household, which falls at the expense of taking
up paid opportunities, pointing to a proposal to form a women’s economic
empowerment team to switch at least 10,000 working women from the informal
sector to the official labor sector each year.
French Ambassador Alexis Le Cour Grandmaison said
that gender equality is a top priority for France, falling within the framework
of feminist diplomacy.
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