Vietnam has made remarkable progress in addressing gender issues in the fields of education, labour and employment.
The assessment was released at a seminar to launch a World Bankreport on Vietnam ’s gender situation co-organised by the Ministry ofLabour, War Invalids and Social Affairs (MoLISA) and the WB in Hoi AnCity, Quang Nam central province on September 21.
According to the report, the gender-based income gap in Vietnamis much lower than that of other East Asian countries and women’s incomehas improved remarkably.
Gender gap at theprimary education level has been removed and the number of femaleshaving university and college degrees are much higher than that ofmales.
The mortality rate among pregnant womenhas decreased from 233 to 85 cases per 100,000 parturitions over thepast 15 years.
The report also recommendsVietnam to speed up the implementation of the Gender Equality Law andthe National Strategy on General Equality, promote men’s participationin addressing gender issues, and put in place mechanisms to encouragewomen to engage in different sectors as well as ease working burdens forwomen through infrastructure improvement and policy assistance.
Speaking at the seminar, Daniel Mont, a WB senior expert on poverty,said that Vietnam has received praise from the world community forits efforts to implement gender equality with the introduction of theGender Equality Law, the Domestic Violence Prevention Law, the 2011-2020National Strategy on Gender Equality and the 2011-2015 NationalProgramme on Gender Equality.
However, the countryis facing a lot of challenges from the high proportion of women amongpoor old people, gender stereotypes in educational materials, prevalentviolence against women along with women’s disadvantages in the labourmarket and low participation in politics, he noted.
According to Pham Ngoc Tien, Director of the MoLISA’s Gender EqualityDepartment, the WB report is one of the valuable reference documentsthat aim to boost gender equality in Vietnam, especially when thecountry joins the group of middle-income countries./.
The assessment was released at a seminar to launch a World Bankreport on Vietnam ’s gender situation co-organised by the Ministry ofLabour, War Invalids and Social Affairs (MoLISA) and the WB in Hoi AnCity, Quang Nam central province on September 21.
According to the report, the gender-based income gap in Vietnamis much lower than that of other East Asian countries and women’s incomehas improved remarkably.
Gender gap at theprimary education level has been removed and the number of femaleshaving university and college degrees are much higher than that ofmales.
The mortality rate among pregnant womenhas decreased from 233 to 85 cases per 100,000 parturitions over thepast 15 years.
The report also recommendsVietnam to speed up the implementation of the Gender Equality Law andthe National Strategy on General Equality, promote men’s participationin addressing gender issues, and put in place mechanisms to encouragewomen to engage in different sectors as well as ease working burdens forwomen through infrastructure improvement and policy assistance.
Speaking at the seminar, Daniel Mont, a WB senior expert on poverty,said that Vietnam has received praise from the world community forits efforts to implement gender equality with the introduction of theGender Equality Law, the Domestic Violence Prevention Law, the 2011-2020National Strategy on Gender Equality and the 2011-2015 NationalProgramme on Gender Equality.
However, the countryis facing a lot of challenges from the high proportion of women amongpoor old people, gender stereotypes in educational materials, prevalentviolence against women along with women’s disadvantages in the labourmarket and low participation in politics, he noted.
According to Pham Ngoc Tien, Director of the MoLISA’s Gender EqualityDepartment, the WB report is one of the valuable reference documentsthat aim to boost gender equality in Vietnam, especially when thecountry joins the group of middle-income countries./.
