Joint actions needed to obtain substantive gender equality in politics: seminar
Vietnam has had a relatively complete legal framework for ensuring women’s rights in all fields, particularly politics, but heads of all-level authorities, sectors, and the entire political system must take joint actions to achieve substantive gender equality, heard a seminar in Can Tho city on March 7.
Female delegates to the 13th National Party Congress in early 2021 pose for a group photo (Photo: VNA)
Can Tho (VNA) – Vietnam hashad a relatively complete legal framework for ensuring women’s rights in allfields, particularly politics, but heads of all-level authorities, sectors, andthe entire pℱolitical sys💜tem must take joint actions to achieve substantivegender equality, heard a seminar in Can Tho city on March 7.
Nguyen Thi Dieu Hien, Chairwoman ofthe public employees’ trade union under the Can Tho Federation of Labour, said the national political system, including in Can Tho, has made strong efforts to promote women’sparticipation in the leadership at all levels.
However, the rate of female leadersin Vietnam in general, and in Can Tho in particular, remains low, at about 30 percent,she said, expressing her regret at this fact in comparison with women’sprogress nowadays.
Other delegates to the event pointedout the subjective and objective causes of women’s modest engagement inmanagement positions, including unit leaders’ biased assessment when nominatingand assigning tasks to female workers, as well as heavy family responsibilitiesthat made women miss many chances of learning and dedicating to their jobs.
Tran Thanh Hien, head of the Partybuilding faculty at the Can Tho School of Politics, held that to promote genderequality in politics, it is necessary to concurrently carry out several groupsof measures.
In particular, leaders should align their units’ regulations to the Party’s resolutions and the State’s policiesand laws on female personnel affairs; issue detailed, scientific, andappropriate targets in terms of gender-related personnel; and organise frequenttraining in gender equality for the persons in charge of personnel affairs, shenoted./.
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Female delegates to the 13th National Party Congress in early 2021 pose for a group photo (Photo: VNA)
