Better awareness of women’s political participation needed: minister
It is necessary to further promote public awareness of women’s empowerment, especially their political participation, although the percentage of women in Vietnam’s parliament is currently higher than the global average, said a minister.
Hanoi (VNA) – It is necessary to further promote public awareness of women’s empowerment, especially their political participation, although the percentage of women in Vietnam’s parliament is currently higher than the global average, said a minister.
At a conference reviewing the 10-year implementation of the Law on Gender Equality held in Hanoi on October 17, Minister of Labour, Invalids and Social Affairs Dao Ngoc Dung noted an important change over the past years is that there has been an observable improvement in men’s awareness of the role of women and girls, which can be seen in each family.
For the time ahead, it is necessary to further promote public awareness of the empowerment of women, especially their right to participate in politics, he said.
The ministry reported that a number of achievements have been obtained after 10 years of the law implementation.
Notably, women’s political participation at all levels has increased. The numbers of female members of the Politburo and the Party Central Committee have risen for three tenures. For the first time, Vietnam has had a chairwoman of the National Assembly (NA) and three female Politburo members.
Besides, 27.1 percent of the NA deputies are women, higher than the averages of 23.4 percent in the world and 18.6 percent in Asia. Women are also holding key positions in 13 of the 30 ministries and ministry-level and Government agencies, along with 16 of the 63 provincial-level localities.
The rate of women-owned businesses also soared from 4 percent in 2009 to 27.8 percent in 2017 – highest in Southeast Asia, statistics show.
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