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SCWO Open House – A Night to Remember: SCWO participates in the Singapore Night Festival 2022 for the first time
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What will life be like for women in Singapore in 2050?
Exhibition about The Lives of Women will prompt visitors to think of how they can help to close the gender gap Singapore, 17 January 2022: An exhibition that opens this week at the National Museum of Singapore will encourage visitors to think about the gender gap in Singapore and what they can do to help close it over the next 30 years. The Lives of Women exhibition, which opens on 18 January, is the final instalment of a 3-part series produced by the Singapore Women’s Hall of Fame (SWHF), an initiative of the Singapore Council of Women’s Organisations (SCWO), in partnership with the National Museum of Singapore. …
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SCWO Has Inducted 7 Amazing Women into the Singapore Women’s Hall of Fame
The 7th annual Singapore Women’s Hall of Fame Induction Ceremony was this year held at the Istana on 8 March in commemoration of International Women’s Day. The Singapore Women’s Hall of Fame inducted seven outstanding women from five different fields into its ranks. The honourees for 2021 are: Ida Mabel Murray Simmons, a pioneering public health nurse who transformed infant and maternal health care in rural Singapore between 1927 and 1948. Mae Noeline Oehlers, an outstanding sportswoman and educator who was a star hockey player in the 1930s and later the first Singaporean Principal of Raffles Girls’ School. Kwan Shan Mei, a pioneering illustrator who illustrated the readers and textbooks…
