Kovalevskaya prize to mark Int’l Women’s Day
Deputy President of the Vietnam
Women’s Union Hoang Thi Ai Nhien released the information at a press
briefing in Hanoi on February 28. She named Dr. Luong Chi Mai,
Deputy Rector of the Institute of Information Technology under the
Vietnam Academy of Science and Technology, and Dr Nguyen Thi Loc, Head
of the Insect Ecology and Biological Prevention Section under the Mekong
Delta Rice Institute, as prize recipients.
Named
after Russia’s great mathematician and advocate of women’s rights,
Sofia Kovalevskaya, the prize aims to boost Vietnamese women’s
advancement and encourage them to contribute to the national
industrialisation and modernisation.
Also on this
occasion, the Yellow Rose Prize award ceremony will be held to honour
successful businesswomen, who also contributed considerably to the
socio-economic development.
During Vietnam Women’s
Week, from March 1-8, there will be several major events, including the
presentation of the project, “Single women in Tan Minh” and a mass
meeting to mark International Women’s Day where participants will share
experiences in combating domestic violence after four years of
implementing the relevant law.
Vietnam Women’s
Union Central Committee will work with Vietnam Television in producing a
film on Vietnamese women and their organisation. The union is busy
preparing for the first congress of the Intellectual Women Association
while raising funds to build houses for poor, single and disadvantaged
women./.