Towards better suicide prevention support for women

The increase of suicide cases, particularly among women, as seen in police data is one indicator of this problem.

“Before the pandemic, women in Malaysia took on three times more unpaid care work at home compared with men. This rate has only increased as women’s employment fell by five times the rate of men’s employment year on year in the second quarter of 2020,” says Kiran, citing data from an Institute Of Strategic & International Studies report released earlier this year.

According to the Isis report on the unequal impacts of the Covid-19 crisis on Malaysian workers, not only have women in Malaysia experienced a far greater fall in employment compared with men, but women’s employment has also been much slower to recover. The study’s author, Calvin Cheng, also found that young workers have suffered large employment losses, with younger women the hardest hit and far more likely to have exited the workforce during the pandemic.

She also calls for the setting-up of a separate public helpline specifically for mental health support which can complement pre-existing helplines like Talian Kasih, which primarily focuses on assisting victims of domestic and child abuse. She adds that the process to restart the NSRM is currently underway and it will hopefully begin recording again soon.The first step Malaysia must take is to decriminalise attempted suicide. Efforts have been made towards this end but progress has been slow since the Attorney General’s Chambers said it would review Section 309 of the Penal Code in December last year.

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