Nominated assemblypersons should resign, give way to women

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Today marks a dark day for women in Sabah as their status and position in the state has reached rock bottom. As a women’s rights group working for the advancement of women in Sabah since 1986, the Sabah Women's Action Resource Group (Sawo) is angry and disappointed that there are no women ministers in the new Sabah cabinet. All of the positions are taken up by men, including the social development portfolio, which is usually the token position given to a woman politician. During the previous Warisan-led government, a woman politician was appointed as a deputy chief minister as well as the state tourism, culture and environment minister. This was considered by some quarters to be a vast improvement in the position of women in the state cabinet. In this new Gabungan Rakyat Sabah (GRS)-led cabinet, women are now not even considered qualified enough to handle social developmen…