Science Centre’s chief executive gets majority vote as poll opens for AWARE’s sexist remark award

By Nurul Azliah Aripin | Yahoo Newsroom – 

The chief executive of the Science Centre, Dr Lim Tit Meng, has scored the majority 70 per cent of votes — so far, in less than a day of voting — for an award by AWARE for the most "jaw-dropping" sexist remark.
 
The forth annual tongue-in-cheek ALAMAK! Award organised by the not-for-profit women advocacy group was launched on Thursday afternoon. The group has nominated Lim, an Associate Professor at the Department of Biological Sciences at the National University of Singapore, for an internal email he wrote in March to colleagues. In it, he explained explaining how women are incapable of achieving high career positions.
 
He sent the email on International Women's Day, and it he said, "…I have my reasons why not many women can have the stature to hold the highest position. One of them is simply about the complex nature of women which challenges them with communication barriers in even understanding their own gender well, let alone having to compete or co-labour with the men at work."

Still, Lim, acknowledging that women outnumber men at his workplace, added that, "Understanding women and women understanding is an ongoing lesson not just for men, but for everyone, to continually learn, unlearn and relearn".

Singapore Science Centre chief executive leads with number of votes for 'sexist remark' award. (Online Screeng …

Lim was one of four nominees chosen for the award, of which the winner will be announced on 25 August after voting closes.
 
The remaining nominees include lawyer Mr Suresh Damodara, who argued that victims of his client, a serial rapist, faced less than "the usual trauma" as they had been drugged.
 
Low-cost carrier Scoot has been nominated for a "sexist" ad that insulted gender stereotypes about women being needy and men being unreliable. Lastly, Goldheart Jewellery was shortlisted for an ad that said that women's "strength" is found in "weakness".
 
The winner in 2013 went to the principal of St. Margaret's Secondary School who forced her students, who shaved their heads in support for cancer, to wear wigs to school.

Yahoo Singapore has reached out to all four nominees for comment.
 

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