Dear Editor,
Let me congratulate Prime Minister Portia Simpson Miller for tabling in the House of Representatives this week a Sexual Harassment Bill that seeks to outlaw sexual intimidation, coercion and pestering in the workplace, institutions and in landlord-tenant relationships.
I am sure that most Jamaican women do not take these rights for granted and so they would be happy with the efforts of our prime minister. Most of the freedoms and social justices we have today evaded most until the advent of Michael Norman Manley.
The Michael Norman Manley was one of Jamaica’s earliest architects of social justice and women’s rights. Manley’s passionate desire to give the average Jamaican woman their civil rights was unquestionable.
He was arguably the founding father of the rights of women in our society and went on to do a number of things that today give our women the respect that they truly deserve.
Manley first establishing the Bureau of Women’s Affairs that was to address issues critical to women, he created and implemented the Maternity Leave Law which granted paid leave to new mothers. Manley, in 1975, established the Equal Pay for Men and Woman Act that sees professional woman receiving equal salaries as their male counterparts.
Because of Manley’s work, young women no longer had to fear of being fired if they got pregnant. Young woman who worked as maids were not seen as remnants of a history of slavery by their plantation master, but are treated with respect by their employers
Let me again applaud the Prime Minister Portia Simpson Miller for following in the steps of her party predecessor in introducing the Sexual Harassment Bill.
Like Manley, our prime minister she has further added to the development of women rights in Jamaica and handed him and our women deserving gift during the week of his birthday celebrations.
Garth Crawford
garth_crawford@ymail.com
Let me congratulate Prime Minister Portia Simpson Miller for tabling in the House of Representatives this week a Sexual Harassment Bill that seeks to outlaw sexual intimidation, coercion and pestering in the workplace, institutions and in landlord-tenant relationships.
I am sure that most Jamaican women do not take these rights for granted and so they would be happy with the efforts of our prime minister. Most of the freedoms and social justices we have today evaded most until the advent of Michael Norman Manley.
The Michael Norman Manley was one of Jamaica’s earliest architects of social justice and women’s rights. Manley’s passionate desire to give the average Jamaican woman their civil rights was unquestionable.
He was arguably the founding father of the rights of women in our society and went on to do a number of things that today give our women the respect that they truly deserve.
Manley first establishing the Bureau of Women’s Affairs that was to address issues critical to women, he created and implemented the Maternity Leave Law which granted paid leave to new mothers. Manley, in 1975, established the Equal Pay for Men and Woman Act that sees professional woman receiving equal salaries as their male counterparts.
Because of Manley’s work, young women no longer had to fear of being fired if they got pregnant. Young woman who worked as maids were not seen as remnants of a history of slavery by their plantation master, but are treated with respect by their employers
Let me again applaud the Prime Minister Portia Simpson Miller for following in the steps of her party predecessor in introducing the Sexual Harassment Bill.
Like Manley, our prime minister she has further added to the development of women rights in Jamaica and handed him and our women deserving gift during the week of his birthday celebrations.
Garth Crawford
garth_crawford@ymail.com