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[Commentary] How Covid-19 has Influenced my Decision to Have Children
Commentary by Pek Lay Peng, SCWO Board Member I always knew I wanted to have children but I never expected to have four. Back in my 20s, the idea of building my own family always appealed. I had an inkling of what it might possibly be like but work and social pressures meant that I could not really devote any significant amount of time contemplating the gravity and weight of responsibility that came with it. So, as with everything else that did not seem urgent then, I packed it away neatly in my box of ill-developed plans and left it to collect dust in the deep recesses of my mind.…
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SCWO Holds 41st AGM
SCWO held its second ever virtual Annual General Meeting on Saturday, 26 June 2021. In attendance were 38 representatives from 24 of our member organisations. The meeting was kickstarted by our Honorary Secretary, Joanna Portilla, who welcomed everyone to the meeting and ensured that there was quorum. Once quorum was ascertained, the time was handed over to our SCWO President, Junie Foo, who then delivered the President’s Address, which highlighted all of SCWO’s activities for the past year. As there were no objections to the annual reports or the past AGM minutes, the meeting was adjourned smoothly and successfully soon after. Read the full President’s Report here.
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Inaugural ‘Tea Talk’ Session for Members
This is the first of many sessions planned to encourage networking and collaboration among SCWO members. For this session, representatives from the Business and Professional Women’s Groups attended. 100 Women in Finance Business & Professional Women’s Association (Spore)-3rd Chapter (BPWA 3rd Chap) Singapore Business & Professional Women’s Association – Mandarin Chapter Young Women’s Leadership Connection (YWLC) PrimeTime Business & Professional Women’s Association (PRIMETIME) Connected Women (ATHENA) Federation of Business and Professional Women (Singapore) (FBPWS) The session started with an ice-breaker followed by introductions and an informal networking amongst the attendees present. There were fruitful discussions that produced many possible points of collaboration between the member organisations as well as between…
