Almotamar.net - A workshop on invigorating role of the media women in Yemen on Friday called for the necessity of convincing the general assembly of the Yemen Journalists Syndicate YJS at the first meeting to adopt a 20% daft quota for women in the next YJS council.

In the mean time the Chairman of Yemeni journalists Nassr Taha Mustafa announced at the same activity that the 4th conference of the YJS to be held on Saturday would discuss the subject of the quota by 20% for the media women. The topic is part of the draft amendments of the YJS statute. He indicated that the proportion of media women in the syndicate was still little compared to the number of the syndicate male members.

The call came at a workshop organized by Yemen Women Media Forum YWMF on activation of media women role at the YJS and honouring of a number of media women and men on the World Women Day held in cooperation with the Dutch and American embassies in Yemen lat Thursday.