A campaign called “Career has no gender” has been launched to promote gender equality in workplaces nationwide. (Photo: VoV) Hanoi (VNA) - A campaign called “Career has no gender” has been launched to promotegender equality in workplaces nationwide, Le Thanh Hang, Director of the VietnamBusiness Coalition for Women’s Empowerment (VBCWE), said on October 20.
This is thefirst-ever comprehensive and systematic campaign on gender equality at the workplaceand women’s economic empowerment in Vietnam, she noted.
A range ofactivities are to take place, including seminars and political consultations.
According toOxfam, an international confederation of 20 NGOs working with partners in over90 countries and territories to end the injustices that cause poverty, genderinequality is one of the oldest and most pervasive forms of inequality in theworld. It denies women their voice, devalues their work, and makes their positionunequal to men’s, from the household to the national and global levels.
Despite importantprogress made over recent years, in no country have women achieved economicequality with men and they are still more likely than men to live in poverty.
Women do thelowest-paid work around the world. Globally, they earn 24 percent less than men,and at the current rate of progress it will take 170 years to close the gap. Seven-hundredmillion fewer women than men are in paid work.
Struggling toeliminate gender inequality, Vietnam fell 10 places to 87th in the 2019 globalrankings.
With an averagescore of 0.7 on a scale of 1, it has made little progress towards genderequality, according to the 2019 Global Gender Gap Report released by the WorldEconomic Forum.
The campaign is thereforeexpected to raise awareness among employers and the general public about genderequality.
The VBCWE was launchedin February 2018 through the Investing in Women (IW) programme funded by theAustralian Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade (DFAT), for the purpose ofpursuing gender equality at the workplace and women’s economic empowerment inVietnam./.
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