Global Survey: Vietnam Ranks First for Gender Equality At Home and Work

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The World's Leading Market Research Association (WIN) recently published its annual survey, showing that Vietnam is among the countries with the highest index for gender equality in the world.

According to this survey, up to 93% of Vietnamese respondents believe that there is equality between men and women in the family. This is also the highest rate among the 39 countries participating in this survey.

In Vietnam, up to 84% of respondents in big cities think the country has achieved gender equality at work and 93% think that there is equality between women and men at home.

Vietnam has the highest percentage of people who rate gender equality at work Photo: Newsnpr

The political sector is where women face the most difficulties, with only about half of respondents saying that women and men are treated equally in politics.

Yet 63% of respondents in Vietnam say there is gender equality in politics, which is above the average response of the survey.

Finland is the country that has the highest percentage of people (86%) perceiving gender equality in politics.

Regarding the overall results of the survey, 70% of respondents in 39 countries think that there is equality between the sexes in the family, 60% have similar thoughts about gender equality in the workplace.

It’s noteworthy that countries with the lowest gender equality index are developed countries such as Japan and Italy.

In Japan, only 30% of respondents believe there is equality in the workplace between men and women, and the corresponding figures in politics and at home are 18% and 44% respectively.

In Italy, 38% think there is gender equality in the workplace, equal to the percentage in politics, and 69% think the same about family.

This year’s survey explores for the first time more about job and career opportunities for both sexes. Worldwide, 37% of respondents believe that women have equal opportunities with men when it comes to job search and career development.

In Vietnam, this rate is 69%, the second highest in the world after China with 79%. Japan is the country with the lowest rate at 12%.

The survey was conducted in 39 countries using face-to-face, telephone or online interviews. 33,326 people were interviewed.

In Vietnam, the survey was conducted by Indochina Research Company (Indochina Research) with 601 respondents in Hanoi, Ho Chi Minh City, Da Nang and Can Tho.

The National Strategy on Gender Equality for the 2021-2030 period Photo: Wikipedia Aiming to reduce women's average hours of unpaid housework and care work to 1.7 times in 2025 and 1.4 times in 2030 compared to men. This is one of the notable goals in the National Strategy on Gender Equality for the 2021 - 2030 period, issued together with Resolution No. 28/NQ-CP. The COVID-19 pandemic has not only increased existing inequalities in the Vietnamese labor market, but also created new inequalities. Women's total weekly hours worked in the second quarter of 2020 was only 88.8% of their total hours worked in the fourth quarter of 2019, while this figure for men was 91.2%. Hence, the goal of the National Strategy 2021 - 2030 is to continue to narrow the gender gap, and to create conditions and opportunities for women and men to participate and benefit equally in education and the other fields of social life, contributing to the sustainable development of the country. The strategy sets out 6 goals and 20 specific targets in following areas: Politics; economy, labor; in family life and prevention; response to gender-based violence; medical; educations; information and communication.

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