Awawdeh appointed director of army fund

AMMAN — The board of directors of the Military Housing Fund, chaired by Chairman of the Joint Chiefs-of-Staff Gen. Mashal Al Zaben, on Monday appointed Hassan Awawdeh as director general of the army-run fund.

## Social Development Ministry, women's rights

‘Over half of Social Development Ministry employees are women’

AMMAN (JT) — Women constitute around 54 per cent of the Social Development Ministry’s employees, according to a statement released on Monday, ahead of International Women’s Day, annually marked on March 8.

Sixty-five per cent of ministry’s housing service beneficiaries are women, while they account for 48 per cent of its elderly care service beneficiaries, and 43 per cent of people with disabilities receiving institutional social care.