Female workers at the Kydo Vietnam Ltd. Company.(Photo: VNA)
Hanoi (VNA) - Vietnam is leading ASEANin terms of the percentage of working women in totalemployment, according to a report by the ADB and OECD.
The share of Vietnamesewomen in total employment stayed at about 48.5 percent in 2016, howeverthis was little changed from 2009.
Vietnam was closely followed byLaos at 46 percent and Thailand at 45 percent.
The figures were published in the 'Government at aGlance: Southeast Asia 2019' report that was released on September 10 by the Asian Development Bank(ADB) and the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD).
The report aimed to provideinsight into government processes and performance in member countries of theAssociation of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN).
It gathered data in various areassuch as public services, promoting digital government and providing better workopportunities for women.
ASEAN members include Brunei,Cambodia, Indonesia, Laos, Malaysia, Myanmar, the Philippines, Singapore,Thailand and Vietnam.
“Strengthening publicinstitutional capacities is critical to all operations and ADB remainscommitted to supporting our developing member countries in improving publicsector management functions and financial stability, while promoting moreeffective, timely, corruption-free, and citizen-centric delivery of publicservices,” said ADB Vice-President for Knowledge Management and SustainableDevelopment Bambang Susantono.
Thereport showed 48.1 percent of public sector employees in Vietnam in 2016 were women, up from 46 percentin 2009. The latest figure was higher than the average rate of ASEAN at 46.9 percent.
Generally speaking, the reporthighlighted that women and men were almost equally represented in SoutheastAsian public sector employment.
However, the rate plummetedregarding women’s political representation, deemed crucial to ensurewomen’s perspectives were taken into account in policy-making.
Vietnam ranks third at 27 percentbehind the Philippines and Laos in terms of the number of femaleparliamentarians, higher than the ASEAN average rate of 20 percent and farahead of Thailand at 5 percent./.
