Priority on training women for top jobs, minister says
"Women should just come. You can do things like this; we want to take initiatives like that”.
Higher education minister Dr Maryam Mariya has said that the government will work to train women for higher positions in the civil service and provide them with opportunities in areas where women are not usually active.
Mariya said this in an interview with Atoll Times last week after taking over the expanded Higher Education Ministry in this government to include labor and skill development. She was talking about a needs assessment that was in progress
"Based on that needs assessment, we are identifying the various skills and institutions or areas that need to be developed in the country and a labor force to do it," the minister said.
"In this way, we are giving top priority to empowering women in the civil service for leadership roles”.
Some of the things to be done include:
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Training women for leadership roles in the civil service
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Empowering women in technology
In addition, she will also work to empower women in the programs run by the Maldives Polytechnic. They include:
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Women will be given more opportunities to do jobs that women do not usually do
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It will highlight what women can do and facilitate them to go forward
“It’s not just men who can do carpentry work, or engineering,” she said.
"Women should just come. You can do things like this; we want to take initiatives like that”.
Despite the disproportionate number of female employees in the civil service, there are few women in senior level positions. There is occasional criticism about it.
However, recently, women are increasingly entering male-dominated fields.
