National
Plan of Action for the Advancement of Women in Vietnam (draft)
The National Plan of Action for the Advancement of Women from
2001 to 2005 (POA2) is the plan for implementing the first five
years of the National Strategy for the Advancement of Women
from 2001-2010 (the Strategy). The POA2 is also a crucial component
of the National Socioeconomic Development Strategy for the first
5 years of the 21st century. Download the document
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Women
in Vietnam (2002)
Viet Nam has made good progress in improving the well-being
of women and reducing gender disparities. The Government has
made impressive advances in narrowing the gender gaps in terms
of improved income and access to productive resources, education,
and health care. However, gender gaps continue to exist. Overall,
health and education indicators for women are worse than for
men, wage differentials persist, and women are underrepresented
in the formal labor market. Differences are also apparent in
state employment, access to credit and land, time worked, political
representation, and decision making. Pockets of gender disparity
are apparent, particularly within poorer communities where competition
over scarce resources exposes and reinforces gender inequalities.
Gender disparity also appears in national-level statistics within
particular areas and these disparities are magnified within
poor households. For example, inequity exists for girls in general
in upper secondary, vocational and technical, and university
education. Disparity also exists in hours worked (including
in the home) and income received. The most disadvantaged women
are those in poor rural areas, remote and mountainous areas,
and members of ethnic minority communities. BAC
Changing
Gender Relations in Vietnam's Post Doi Moi Era
This study documents existing evidence on the gender effects
of the recent social and economic transition in Vietnam. Although
gender disparities are often attributed to Confucian traditions
around men and women’s roles, these traditions alone do
not explain the variant forms of gender inequality in Vietnam
today. The formation of new social hierarchies arising from
the transition to a market economy further raises the question
of whether gender alone without reference to other forms of
social differentiation is an adequate analytic construct for
assessing the impact of the reforms. This report provides an
analysis of national trends, a review of the recent literature
on gender, and a household level analysis of gender roles in
both an urban and a rural community. Findings are presented
on changing intra-household relations, mobility and social differentiation
in the market economy, and new forms of political participation
and knowledge. Specific recommendations are provided to address
emerging gender inequalities at the household and community
level and in light of larger national trends. BAC
Tradition
traps Vietnamese women (2001)
Real progress towards gender equality in Vietnam continues to be frustrated
by entrenched traditions and the country still has a long way
to go before it achieves its Constitutional guarantee of gender
equality, women's rights advocates commented during the 2001
celebration of International Women’s Day. A recent World Bank
study shows that Vietnam's shoulder much of the country's economic
burden and those in rural areas work an average 18 hours a day.
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Women’s
Health in Vietnam (1999)
Vietnamese women have the tendency, just by nature, to sacrifice
for others in their families. If a family's economic status
is low, women usually give their husbands and children priorities
in food, health care, clothing, etc., thus resulting in their
bad health status. Read more from this report.
Vietnam:
facts on trafficking and prostitution (1998)
Facts and figures on prostitution and trafficking of women in
Vietnam.
Women
still suffering despite reforms in Vietnam (1997)
Vietnam's drive to reform its economy along market lines has
left many women with lives of toil, low pay, poor education
and inadequate health care. The influential Women's Union also
bemoaned the fact that only about five percent of the country's
top-ranking officials were women, and said gender problems should
be part and parcel of the government's socio-economic targets.
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