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The ways to reduce gender discrimination is government should reinforce the law is

the one of the method to reduce gender discrimination. According to the sections 375
and 376 of Malaysia Penal Code. It is classified into three categories; statutory, non-
statutory and incestuous. The statutory rape involves women under the age of 16
regardless of their consent. It is understandable that the statutory rape law intends to
protect teenagers from being taken advantage of due to their tender age. Next, the
incestuous is an relationship is one involving sexual intercourse between two
members of the same family, for example a father and daughter, or
a brother and sister. From this sections 375 and 376 of Malaysia Penal Code, those
who go against this section government will take legal action against them. For
example, whoever commits rape shall be punished with imprisonment for a term
which may extend to twenty years, and shall also be liable to whipping. This will
scare the citizen and will reduce gender discrimination

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