“It is better to debate a question without settling it than to settle a question without debating it,” said 18th century French essayist Joseph Joubert, a quote which Ms Irene Boey, Chair of Women’s Register (WR), mentioned in her opening address at the WR-NUS-SP Jain Debating Championships 2019. The Championships is the 5th of the Debate Series which started in 2011 with the aim to raise awareness for gender equality and engage our forthcoming generations of thought leaders to discuss their concerns and express their future aspirations, with focus on women’s issues and was initially held in conjunction with the International Women’s Day. Since 2018, Women’s Register undertook the series…

“A woman with a voice is by definition a strong woman. But the search to find that voice can be remarkably difficult.” – Melinda Gates, Co-founder of Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation Communicating in the workplace requires confidence – at the Women’s Register (WR), we recognise this, and hope to boost our members professionally through fun and educational workshops. On 25th September, WR partnered with Accenture, a multinational professional services company, to organise a workshop that allowed participants to learn how to build a strong toolkit for communicating brilliantly in the workplace using the Lean In method. Accenture kindly offered to host the workshop at their beautiful office space. The…

Coco Chanel once said, “Only fashion fades, style remains”. In this current generation of fast fashion, this remains even more relevant. With the great fashion maven’s musings in mind, WR partnered with Zalora Singapore, the leading online fashion store, to present a styling workshop for our participants on 25th July 2019. We were pleased to be hosted at Zalora’s beautiful office space for the styling workshop led by our speaker, Eleonora, from the Zalora Private Label team. In this cozy environment, participants picked up about different styling tips such as how to identify their body shape and colour tone, allowing them to better understand how to dress according to what…