Vietnam reports more women in political life
HANOI - The women members in the National Assembly of Vietnam has increased to 27.31 percent of the total inthe 2002-2007 tenure from 17.8 percent in the 1987-1992 tenure, a local women committee told Xinhua Friday.
"Besides having a woman vice president, we have many women holding important positions. Now, women make up 12.5 percent of total ministers and positions equivalent to ministers. For the vice ministers and similar positions, the percentage is some 11,"said the country's National Committee for the Advancement of Women.
Now, Vietnamese women's life expectancy is 73 years, compared with 71 years for men, the committee said, noting that each local woman has 2.1 children, lower than the average rate of 2.7 in Southeast Asia.
Under the National Strategy on the Advancement of Women approved by the government in 2002, Vietnam has targeted, by 2010,to reduce the urban unemployment rate among women to below 5 percent, increase the percentage of women post graduates to over 35, and raising the proportion of women in boards of governors of state agencies, political organizations, and political-social organizations at both central and local level to 50 percent.
Now, women represent 50.8 percent of Vietnam's population of more than 82 million, and some 50 percent of the country's workforce, the committee said.
Xinhua - December 16, 2005.
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