First national gender equality census to be conducted

The survey is set to cover 9,000 people in 48 communes and wards of 12 provinces and cities nationwide, heard a symposium in Hanoi on June 9.

First national gender equality census to be conducted (Photo for illustration)

Dr Dang Xuan Thanh, Vice President of Vietnam Academy of Social Sciences (VASS), said the country has been exerting efforts to realize the commitments on equality between genders, including ensuring women’s rights and implementing the Party and Government’s viewpoints and directions for the promotion of equality between genders.

In the next 10 years, Vietnam needs to have an intensive and extensive view of the gender equality situation to take effective measures for achieving the targets by 2030 as part of the U.N.-approved Sustainable Development Goals.

He noted the overall study and assessment of equality between genders to serve sustainable development, which is a national-level task and includes a national gender equality census, is theoretically and practically necessary for clarifying the situation of gender relations as well as men and women’s progress in different fields, analyzing opportunities and barriers, and creating a basis for making recommendations about equality between genders and socio-economic development policies for the coming time.

Assoc. Prof., Dr. Tran Thi Minh Thi, Deputy Director of the VASS Institute for Family and Gender Studies, said the task performance will help promote Vietnam’s realization of international commitments on gender equality, provide scientific foundation for evaluating results of commitment implementation, serve the review of the implementation of the national gender equality strategy for 2021 - 2030, and deal with some urgent issues related to equality between genders.

Source: VNA