Do the women of today need “Cong, Dung, Ngon, Hanh” (“Harworking, Beautiful, Well-spoken and Well-behaved”)?

On the 6th of April 2004, the Scientific Council of the Central Vietnam Women’s Union (VWU), chaired by Madam Ha Thi Khiet, President of the Vietnam Women’s Union, Chairwomen of Scientific Council of the Central Vietnam Women’s Union, organized a meeting to approve the 6 scientific thematical studies relating to the VWU activities.

The workshop was conducted for 2 days, on 17 and 18 June 2005 in Hanoi by the Central Vietnam Women’s Union in collaboration with APCASO, POLICY/USAID and UNAIDS.

 

At anniversary of 20th years Kovalevskaia Prize in Vietnam. Hanoi, 12 April 2005

In Vietnam, nowadays gender awareness is still influenced by Confucianism. The patriarchal social relations between men and women result in dependant and secondary position of women in the family.

The KOVA awards committee just held an awards ceremony on 7th August 2004, at which 2 outstanding groups and 23 individuals received recognition.

Facing the situation that employment has become a critical, not merely economic, but also social, political issue of the country, on 11 April, 1992, the Council of Ministers, now called Government issued Resolution N0 120/HDBT on employment stating that “employment creation is the responsibility of the State, different sectors, social organizations and each laborer”.