Due attention should be given to working out support policies toencourage women in rural areas to voluntarily take vocational trainingcourses to improve their lives and their participation in the nationalindustrialisation and modernisation.
Womenaccount for 52 percent of Vietnam’s workforce, concentrating mostly inrural areas. The percentage of countryside women yet trained withoccupations, however, remains high, at 90.7 percent.
Statistics on gender in Vietnam in the 200-2010 period revealed up to80.5 percent of women living in rural areas in the Red river deltaregion in the north and 92.3 percent of women in the Mekong delta regionin the south have no job skills.
Women withuniversity, college and higher education levels in the Red river deltaaccount for 11.2 percent while the rate is only 4.1 percent in theMekong delta region.
Professor and Doctor PhamThi Tran Chau, President of the Vietnam Association for IntellectualWomen, said that it is necessary to diversify training forms to attractfemales in rural areas to learn jobs.
Vietnam’spopulation officially hit 90 million on November 1, with about 63million people in working age, reflecting the ‘golden populationstructure’ in the country. The country is to see about 1 million peoplejoining workforce annually.
As anonce-in-a-lifetime opportunity for Vietnam, the “golden populationstructure” offers an opportunity to improve workers’ standard so thatthe economic structure can be transferred in line with the labourstructure, especially the female labour force in rural areas.
Vietnam has launched a national strategy on gender equality for the2011-2020 period with the aim of raising awareness, narrowing gender gapand enhancing women’s position.
TheGovernment has deployed solutions in terms of law enforcement andinternational cooperation to surpass challenges regarding the awarenessabout gender equality, and eliminate gender and domestic violence aswell as gender gaps of employment, income and social position.
By the end of 2011, female literacy was 92percent and about 80 percent of girls at remote, far-flung and ethnicregions go to school at the right age.
Thanks to such efforts, Vietnam was placed 47 th out of 187 countriesin the UN’s Gender Inequality Index last year compared with its 58 thposition out of 136 countries recorded in 2010.
However, Vietnam is still facing an array of challenges such as lowpercentage of ethnic women involving in leadership at all levels andhigh poverty rate among minority groups.
The government will continue working to raise public awareness of genderequality while strengthening international cooperation in dealing withgender inequality, especially among disadvantaged groups and instrategic realms such as education, healthcare and employment.-VNA
Womenaccount for 52 percent of Vietnam’s workforce, concentrating mostly inrural areas. The percentage of countryside women yet trained withoccupations, however, remains high, at 90.7 percent.
Statistics on gender in Vietnam in the 200-2010 period revealed up to80.5 percent of women living in rural areas in the Red river deltaregion in the north and 92.3 percent of women in the Mekong delta regionin the south have no job skills.
Women withuniversity, college and higher education levels in the Red river deltaaccount for 11.2 percent while the rate is only 4.1 percent in theMekong delta region.
Professor and Doctor PhamThi Tran Chau, President of the Vietnam Association for IntellectualWomen, said that it is necessary to diversify training forms to attractfemales in rural areas to learn jobs.
Vietnam’spopulation officially hit 90 million on November 1, with about 63million people in working age, reflecting the ‘golden populationstructure’ in the country. The country is to see about 1 million peoplejoining workforce annually.
As anonce-in-a-lifetime opportunity for Vietnam, the “golden populationstructure” offers an opportunity to improve workers’ standard so thatthe economic structure can be transferred in line with the labourstructure, especially the female labour force in rural areas.
Vietnam has launched a national strategy on gender equality for the2011-2020 period with the aim of raising awareness, narrowing gender gapand enhancing women’s position.
TheGovernment has deployed solutions in terms of law enforcement andinternational cooperation to surpass challenges regarding the awarenessabout gender equality, and eliminate gender and domestic violence aswell as gender gaps of employment, income and social position.
By the end of 2011, female literacy was 92percent and about 80 percent of girls at remote, far-flung and ethnicregions go to school at the right age.
Thanks to such efforts, Vietnam was placed 47 th out of 187 countriesin the UN’s Gender Inequality Index last year compared with its 58 thposition out of 136 countries recorded in 2010.
However, Vietnam is still facing an array of challenges such as lowpercentage of ethnic women involving in leadership at all levels andhigh poverty rate among minority groups.
The government will continue working to raise public awareness of genderequality while strengthening international cooperation in dealing withgender inequality, especially among disadvantaged groups and instrategic realms such as education, healthcare and employment.-VNA
