Widespread gender discrimination needsto be tackled effectively to ensure more female workers accessvocational training, gain knowledge and skills and increase theircompetitiveness, experts say.
At a two-dayconference in HCM City that closed on February 2, Trinh Thi Thu Nga, asenior official of the Institute of Labour Science and Social Affairs,said the rate of female workers receiving vocational training issignificantly lower than their male counterparts.
Nga said gender discrimination within households, especially in ruraland mountainous areas is one of the main causes for the low rate offemale workers receiving vocational training.
“They give priority to their sons in accessing education and trainingand think that daughters do not need learn a lot,” she said.
Although the Government has initiated many vocational trainingprogrammes for workers, many women in the rural areas are still notencouraged to attend them, she added.
A recent study found that women accounted for more than 70 percent ofthe workforce in the animal husbandry industry, but only 20 percentreceived vocational training in this area of work.
Associate Prof Cao Van Sam, deputy head of the General Department ofVocational Training said that Article 110 of Labour Law requires thatState offices have the responsibility to train staff in skills otherthan their existing jobs in order to prepare them for futureassignments. They are also required to create favourable conditions forthe staff to use their new skills.
However, only 2.08 percent of female employees received suchpreparatory training, he said. He noted that training for new work wasparticularly necessary in some professions, like that of airhostesses,who typically are not allowed to do that work after they are 35.
The Ministry of Labour, War Invalids and Social Affairs (MoLISA) willco-operate with the Vietnam Women’s Union to increase the rate offemale workers receiving vocational training by 2015 in order toimprove their quality, effectiveness and competitiveness, said Tao BangHuy, deputy head of the ministry’s Employment Department.
He said this will help increase employment among women towards meetingthe demand of the industrialisation and modernisation process as wellas that of international economic integration.
The Vietnam Women’s Union at all levels will work to ensure that 50,000women access vocational training every year, Huy added.
He noted that the rate of female workers receiving training had increased by 35 percent last year over 2008.
According to the National Research Institute of Labour Protection, women account for 48 percent of the country’s workforce./.
At a two-dayconference in HCM City that closed on February 2, Trinh Thi Thu Nga, asenior official of the Institute of Labour Science and Social Affairs,said the rate of female workers receiving vocational training issignificantly lower than their male counterparts.
Nga said gender discrimination within households, especially in ruraland mountainous areas is one of the main causes for the low rate offemale workers receiving vocational training.
“They give priority to their sons in accessing education and trainingand think that daughters do not need learn a lot,” she said.
Although the Government has initiated many vocational trainingprogrammes for workers, many women in the rural areas are still notencouraged to attend them, she added.
A recent study found that women accounted for more than 70 percent ofthe workforce in the animal husbandry industry, but only 20 percentreceived vocational training in this area of work.
Associate Prof Cao Van Sam, deputy head of the General Department ofVocational Training said that Article 110 of Labour Law requires thatState offices have the responsibility to train staff in skills otherthan their existing jobs in order to prepare them for futureassignments. They are also required to create favourable conditions forthe staff to use their new skills.
However, only 2.08 percent of female employees received suchpreparatory training, he said. He noted that training for new work wasparticularly necessary in some professions, like that of airhostesses,who typically are not allowed to do that work after they are 35.
The Ministry of Labour, War Invalids and Social Affairs (MoLISA) willco-operate with the Vietnam Women’s Union to increase the rate offemale workers receiving vocational training by 2015 in order toimprove their quality, effectiveness and competitiveness, said Tao BangHuy, deputy head of the ministry’s Employment Department.
He said this will help increase employment among women towards meetingthe demand of the industrialisation and modernisation process as wellas that of international economic integration.
The Vietnam Women’s Union at all levels will work to ensure that 50,000women access vocational training every year, Huy added.
He noted that the rate of female workers receiving training had increased by 35 percent last year over 2008.
According to the National Research Institute of Labour Protection, women account for 48 percent of the country’s workforce./.
