Although the women of Sri Lanka bring in most of the country's much-needed foreign exchange, they have yet to receive adequate legal protection against violence and other social threats confronting them. IN March last year, at a press conference during the United Nations Social Development Summit in Copenhagen, a Norwegian journalist asked the Sri Lankan President Mrs Chandrika Kumaratunga, how she could help to improve the status of women in Sri Lanka. We have a woman President and a woman Prime Minister, and six other woman ministers in a Cabinet of 24.
Women educate themselves as much as men.
Job opportunities for women are not less than for men'. Social violence like rape, even rape of little children. She acknowledged that there was a lack of legislation in Sri Lanka to protect women against this type of violence and said that her government would soon draw up legislation to overcome it. Many in South Asia thinks that women in Sri Lanka are better off than their counterparts in other countries of South Asia. To some extent this is true.