According to a survey by the Women's Aid Organisation (WAO), 56 percent of women in Malaysia have experienced at least one form of gender discrimination in the workplace.

In their finding, 47 percent of women were asked about their marital status during a job interview, while one in every five women were questioned on their ability to perform certain tasks as a woman.

Other than that, about 55 percent of women said their child’s father was given either less than one week of paternity leave or...