Gender
Women
Joint initiative in Hanoi to make internet more gender equal
The Swedish Embassy, UNDP, UN Women, civil society organisations, business community and local media are cooperating with Wikimedia to highlight achievements of women from Vietnam on the occasion of the National Women’s Day (20 October). With the initiative, the organisers want to increase the number ...
UNDP
Vietnam strives to reduce sex imbalances at birth
A ceremony was held in the north central province of Thanh Hoa on October 9 in response to International Day of the Girl Child (October 11), focusing on the theme of no sex discrimination and no selection of unborn babies. []Statistics show that sex imbalances at ...
VNA Reporter
Businesswomen still face obstacles in Vietnam
Vietnamese women have greater interest in business than those in other countries in the region, but they have encountered a host of challenges along the path to leadership, heard a forum held in HCMC on July 10 on training female entrepreneurs to acquire leadership and ...
Hung Le
Vietnam ranks 18th in index of women entrepreneurs
Vietnam gained 65.5 points in the MasterCard Index of Women Entreprenuers, ranking 18th. Women account for 31.3% of total entrepreneurs in the country, putting Vietnam at the 6th position among nations with the highest rates of women entrepreneurs. Keep reading ...
VNA Reporter
25 million child marriages prevented in last decade due to accelerated progress, according to new UNICEF estimates
The prevalence of child marriage is decreasing globally with several countries seeing significant reductions in recent years, UNICEF said today. Overall, the proportion of women who were married as children decreased by 15 per cent in the last decade, from 1 in 4 to approximately ...
United Nations
Vietnam well implements gender equality-related goals
Vietnam is one of the nations gaining great achievements in ensuring gender equality and assessed by the United Nations as a bright spot in carrying out Millennium Development Goals. Keep reading ...
VNA Reporter
58% of wed women in VN abused: study
About 58 per cent of ever-married women aged 18-60 have experienced violence in a family setting at least once in their lives, a national survey has found.Keep reading ...
VNS Reporter
Second survey on women’s health, life experience launched
The second National Survey on Women’s Health and Life Experience funded by the Australian Embassy in Vietnam was launched at a workshop in Hanoi on January 25. The workshop was jointly held by the Ministry of Labour, Invalids and Social Affairs (MoLISA), General of Statistics ...
MOLISA
Gender inequality persists despite positive changes
Some 72 percent of Vietnamese women have joined the labour force, higher than the average world percentage (42 percent), and ranking only behind Cambodia (81 percent). These figures were revealed in a recently-released report of the Centre for Development and Integration, a Vietnamese non-governmental and ...
VNA Reporter
Experts emphasise gender equality in VN’s HIV response
The current national response to HIV fails to adequately respond to the diverse needs and rights of the main affected groups – women and girls.Keep reading ...
VNS Reporter
