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HCM City working hard to promote gender equality

A programme to implement the National Strategy on Gender Equality in the 2021–2030 period and the Vietnam Population Strategy by 2030 was launched by the Ho Chi Minh City Federation of Labour on December 6.
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HCM City (VNA) – Aprogramme to implement the National Strategy on Gender Equality in the 2021–2030 period and the Vietnam Population Strategy by 2030 was launched by the Ho Chi Minh City Federation of Labour on December 6.

This is part of activities to respond to the 2021 National Action Month for GenderEquality, preventionand response to gender-based violence, and the NationalAction Month on Population.

According to VicePresident of the Ho Chi Minh City Federation of Labour Le Thi Kim Thuy, this activity aims to create positive changesand raise the sense of responsibility of trade unions at all levels for issues relating to gender,population and development; and enhance their involvement in supervising, giving socialcriticism, and implementing policies and laws on population and gender equality,thus better taking care of and ensuring legitimate rights and interests of female workers.

Theprogramme will  focus on narrowing gendergap, creating conditions and opportunities for employees to participate andenjoy equal benefits in all social areas, legal policies on population andgender equality; and firmly maintaining the replacement fertility rate, genderbalance and population quality, contributing to the country's sustainabledevelopment, Thuy stressed.

Thepercentage of women participating in executive boards of trade unions at alllevels is expected to reach 35 percent by 2025. Meanwhile, the rate of womenin the personal planning for key positions of trade unions at all levels ishoped to reach at least 35 percent by 2030.

Trade unions at all levels will strive to organize communicationactivities to change awareness, action and responsibility for promoting genderequality, population and development, and men's responsibilities to share housework, and preventing andadapting to gender-basedviolence.

Workers of reproductive age will be provided with information and medicalexamination services before marriage, while pregnant female employees will have equal opportunities to access premarital health consultancy and check-up, screening, earlydiagnosis and treatment of diseases before giving birth.

Inorder to effectively implement this strategy, Thuy asked local trade unions atall levels to pay heed to improving the capacity of trade union leaders and officials at all levels, and strengthening coordination with employers in fullyimplementing policies and laws on population and gender equality.

Modelsand activities to promote gender equality should be diversified, she added./.
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