PETALING JAYA: Wanita MCA has vouched for the involvement of women in the property industry, saying that this would take things to greater heights.

“No matter what field, whether the service sector, education, marketing, professional fields and even politics, women are powerful and influential,” Wanita MCA chairman Datuk Heng Seai Kie.

“Sadly, there are still people, including religious extremists, who discriminate against women, laugh at them, humiliate them, which is terribly wrong, absurd, and disgraceful,” she said in a statement yesterday.

Calling this “the era of women empowerment” as well as the era of “she-conomics”, Heng said that more women should be encouraged to join the workforce so that they could optimise their potential.

“As such, Yayasan Pembangunan Wanita and Wanita MCA, together with GS Realty, are initiating a ‘Prosper Women in Property’, a platform to provide training for women, teaching womenfolk the skills on how to succeed in the property industry, leading them to security and happiness in life,” she added.

-The Star-