A seminar seeking ideas to create a draft national strategy on gender equality for the period of 2011-2020 was held by the Ministry of Labour, War Invalids and Social Affairs (MOLISA) in Ho Chi Minh City on July 15.
At the seminar, participants expressed concerns over domestic violence, the trafficking of women and children, marriages between Vietnamese women and foreigners, and gender imbalance.
According to MOLISA, Vietnam has gained numerous achievements on gender equality, posting the Gender Empowerment Measure (GEM) of 0.554, ranking 62 nd out of 109 countries.
However, MOLISA said the gender gap is still large in numerous fields, leading to gender inequality and gender imbalance in the country.
For instance, the proportion of female leaders in ministries and local authorities is still low while the current number of woman legislators accounts for only 25.7 percent of the total, failing to meet the National Assembly target of 33 percent.
The retirement age for females, five years earlier than males, is considered one of the reasons behind the low proportion of female leaders in the country, explained some participants.
The government has assigned MOLISA to build the strategy, aiming to ensure all ministries, ministerial-level agencies, agencies under the government and people’s committees at all levels have female leaders.
Also, the strategy seeks to create more jobs for poor women in rural areas and for ethnic minority women, reduce teen abortions by half, and highlight the problems women suffer from domestic violence, and the trafficking of women and children./.
At the seminar, participants expressed concerns over domestic violence, the trafficking of women and children, marriages between Vietnamese women and foreigners, and gender imbalance.
According to MOLISA, Vietnam has gained numerous achievements on gender equality, posting the Gender Empowerment Measure (GEM) of 0.554, ranking 62 nd out of 109 countries.
However, MOLISA said the gender gap is still large in numerous fields, leading to gender inequality and gender imbalance in the country.
For instance, the proportion of female leaders in ministries and local authorities is still low while the current number of woman legislators accounts for only 25.7 percent of the total, failing to meet the National Assembly target of 33 percent.
The retirement age for females, five years earlier than males, is considered one of the reasons behind the low proportion of female leaders in the country, explained some participants.
The government has assigned MOLISA to build the strategy, aiming to ensure all ministries, ministerial-level agencies, agencies under the government and people’s committees at all levels have female leaders.
Also, the strategy seeks to create more jobs for poor women in rural areas and for ethnic minority women, reduce teen abortions by half, and highlight the problems women suffer from domestic violence, and the trafficking of women and children./.
