KUALA LUMPUR, June 8 (Bernama) -- Employers must be more understanding and tolerant to women, especially mothers, to avoid stressing them, said president of Global Summit of Women, Irene Natividad.
Natividad said said working mothers joined the workforce mainly in the male-dominated industry.
"They are not used to it and are easily stressful if they do not know how to handle it well," she told Bernama on the sidelines of the 2013 Global Summit of Women here today.
She said some women had told her of what they did to sanitize the male cruel employers as they lacked understanding of what the women had been facing.
"It does not mean that all men (the employers) are cruel but they do not know what women (mothers) are dealing with every single day," she said.
Natividad said Lewis Pallat, former chief executive officer (CEO) of Hewlett-Packard, was the first male employer to implement flexibility in the company's working policy.
"He decided to be the caretaker of his two daughters after his wife died. He made breakfast for the kids and found out that breakfast meetings with kids make them very close," she said.
Natividad said women could not depend only on one CEO to change things and the government itself should have taken the initiatives.
The three-day summit, which ends today, was officiated by Prime Minister Datuk Seri Najib Razak on Thursday.
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