Not Every Stage Sets Women Free | Chan Seet Leng | TEDxAsia Pacific U

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Sherlyn Chan was invited to judge a beauty pageant and took it seriously, writing detailed comments on every participant. As the judges prepared to hand in their score sheets, someone from the organising team told them not to worry, the winner had already been chosen. A single mother who entered pageants looking for proof she was still enough, Sherlyn found something that looked like empowerment but turned out to be validation. She stayed long enough to see the system underneath: the spending required to belong, the untouched food, the goodie bags in landfill, and the waste that wasn't only physical. Now Founder of DCC Present Sdn. Bhd. and a sustainable event organiser, she built her own competition with published criteria, no vote-buying and an audit committee. Empowerment, she argues, is not applause. It's having enough information to make a real decision. Chan Seet Leng is a regional tax leader, entrepreneur, and advocate for women’s empowerment. She believes true empowerment is

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