At the event (Source: VNA)According to the GeneralStatistics Office’s employment survey for the third quarter last year, therewere 53.27 million paid workers nationwide, 25.8 million of them were women,accounting for 48.48 percent, said Deputy Minister of Labour, Invalids andSocial Affairs Nguyen Trong Dam.
He stressed that job generationfor women is one of the priorities of the Government during recent years.
The National Fund for JobAssistance, which provides credit for job generation, helped create employmentfor around 105,000 workers in 2016, about 60 percent of them were women.
The fund also earmarked 62billion VND (2.69 million USD) last year to offer job assistance to over 1,000members of the Vietnam Women’s Union (VWU).
Since 2011, Vietnam has sent80,000-100,000 workers abroad for contracted jobs each year, 35-40 percent ofthem are women.
Deputy Minister Dam said renewingmanagement on vocational education is one of the two breakthrough measuresproposed by the Ministry of Labour, Invalids and Social Affairs, which willfocus on issuing legal documents guiding the implementation of the Law on VocationalEducation, technical standards on the operation and management of vocationaleducation system and improving the capacity of State management agencies in thefield.
Additionally, the ministry willimprove the efficiency of vocation training in tandem with job creation by rallyingpublic resources, including businesses, to offer training to workers,especially adult women in rural areas. At the same time, it will also diversifyjob transaction activities by regularly holding mobile job fairs in rural areas,thus increasing women’s access to job opportunities.
Trinh Thanh Hang from the VietnamGeneral Confederation of Labour (VGCL) said protecting the legitimate rightsand interests of women is the responsibility of the confederation and the VWU.
The VGCL has adopted a Resolutionon the mobilisation of female workers and an action programme on genderequality with specific goals, she said, adding that the VGCL and the VWU areactive in reviewing and offering recommendations on amendments and supplementsto legal documents regarding female officials, cadres and workers.
In the near future, both organisationswill continue to well perform its role as advisors in terms of law building andenforcement involving female workers, gender equality, women’s advancement,population, reproductive health, family and children.
The VGCL will continue listeningto female workers’ aspirations, holding dialogues with employers, and proposingrelevant laws and policies.-VNA
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