Women’s Day: CCSA recognises women’s role in pandemic, Thai PM promises plan for gender equality

Marking International Women’s Day, the prime minister promised a new plan to end gender discrimination and disparities in Thai society while the spokesperson for the Centre for Covid-19 Situation Administration recognised Thai women’s contributions during the Covid-19 pandemic.

In a report by Nation Thailand, the PM Prayut Chan-o-cha said a national strategy has been put in place to help end discrimination over the next 20 years by promoting gender equality, family responsibility and social development.

Throughout the coronavirus outbreak, women in Thailand have played a “vital role,” according to CCSA spokesperson Natapanu Nopakun, going off this year’s theme “Women in leadership: Achieving an equal future in a Covid-19 world.”

“In Thailand’s case, village health volunteers, who are predominantly women, helped Thailand to contain the outbreak by carrying out…